Coarse clotted wool on the buttocks of sheep.
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| 释义 | society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > fleece > [noun] > parts of (8) breeching1799 Coarse clotted wool on the buttocks of sheep. breech1805 transferred. The hinder parts of a beast; also of its skin or fleece: cf. breeching, n. 4. piece1849 Chiefly Australian and New Zealand. Sheep-shearing. In plural. Oddments of wool separated from the skirtings of a fleece; (also) the skirtings… britch1884 Variant of breech, n., esp. in sense 4c. (See also quot. 1940.) Also in phr. too big for one's britches: see big, adj. adv.phrases 1. neck1928 Australian and New Zealand. The wool shorn from the neck of a sheep. Subcategories:— remnants or trimmings (3) |
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