transitive. To dress (wool) with grease.

To pick out, remove (a lock or flock of wool).

transitive. To disentangle and straighten (wool) with a plucker (plucker, n.1 2). Obsolete.

To wind (wool, partly cleaned) into tops for spinning. dialect. (Cf. trendle, n. 5.)

transitive. To splice together (slivers of wool) into rovings. Obsolete.

transitive. To destroy vegetable impurities in (wool) by treatment with an acid followed by heating, which reduces cellulose to carbon dust.