| 单词 | in the yolk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin the yolk in the yolk: designating raw or unscoured wool; designating wool which still contains yolk. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adverb] > greasy or unwashed in the yolk1767 in the grease1835 1767 tr. J. Hellot Art of dying Wool & Woollen Stuffs i. iv. 24 They generally scour a Bale of Wool at once; if it weighed 250 Pounds in the Yolk [Fr. en suain], it generally loses 60 lb in scouring. 1843 A. Beatty Southern Agric. 38 These [breeds] bear fleeces from 8 to 11 pounds, in the yolk. 1901 Dundee Advertiser 17 May 5 [Wool] in ‘the yoke’..was only fetching about 4½d. a lb. 1951 H. P. R. Finberg Tavistock Abbey v. 146 The practice..of shearing wool ‘in the yolk’, was already established in the fourteenth century. < as lemmas |
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