| 单词 | middle wool |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmiddle wool middle wool n. [perhaps compare post-classical Latin lana media wool of middling quality (1242 in a British source), lana mediana (late 13th cent. in British sources)] wool having medium-length staple; a sheep producing such wool. ΚΠ 1587 in J. M. Bestall & D. V. Fowkes Chesterfield Wills & Inventories 1521–1603 (1977) 189 1 stone of black woll..1 stone of midle woll. 1837 W. Youatt Sheep 304 A kind of middle wool. 1866 H. H. Crapo Addr. Central Michigan Agric. Soc. 8 It is neither a short nor a long staple, but ranks in this country as ‘middle wool’. 1884 Overland Monthly Apr. 442/2 Mature merino mutton is better than cotswold, because not so grossly fat; equal to the middle-wools. 1989 S. G. Hall & J. Clutton-Brock 200 Years Brit. Farm Livestock ix. 132 They owed some of their form to an unknown long-wool influence from earlier days and were at this point best described as a mixture of short-wools and middle wools. < as lemmas |
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