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单词 noil
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noiln.

Brit. /nɔɪl/, U.S. /nɔɪl/
Forms: 1600s noill, 1600s– noile, 1700s– noil, 1800s noyl, 1800s– noyle (English regional (East Anglian)).
Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymon: French noel.
Etymology: Probably < Anglo-Norman and Old French noiel, noel (Middle French noel ) kernel, stone of fruit (see newel n.2), and if so probably borrowed much earlier than the earliest attestations below would indicate.
a. In plural. Short pieces and knots of wool combed out of a long staple; the refuse of wool or silk, sometimes made into rovings.
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noils1623
pinions1670
backings1780
pluck1825
1623–4 Act 21 Jas. I c. 18 §3 Many ill disposed persons..have used to mixe and putte Flockes and Thrumes and alsoe Noiles and Haires and other deceivable thinges into..broad Woollen Cloths.
1687 in W. R. Scott Rec. Sc. Cloth Manufactory New Mills (1905) 156 Haveing desired that he may have nyne stone of his noills scribled and spune.
1793 Wright & Hawksley Specif. Patent 1956 2 A circular brush..revolving quick to take the noils off the teeth.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 150 The noyls, or short refuse wool, which remains entangled among the teeth, being removed.
1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 94 The very short fibres of wool..fall over naturally into a box or can placed to receive them. This short wool is called ‘noils’.
1929 E. Midgley Finishing Woven Fabrics ii. 11 Noils..are a by-product of the worsted combing process.
1946 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 109 219 An order was issued immediately bringing all business in wool, tops and noils to a temporary standstill.
1986 Crafts May–June 92/4 (advt.) Sorted fleeces, wool tops, felting noils.
b. In singular as a mass noun.
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1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 159 The fragments collect in the instrument and form only a noil, an article of no use in the fabrication of worsteds.
1844 Penny Mag. 27 Jan. 37/2 This, under the name of noyl or noil, is afterwards carded and spun into coarse woollen yarn.
1894 Times 12 Mar. 13/5 The machine which separates the long fibres for fine spinning from the waste or ‘noil’, which is used for spinning heavy numbers.
1938 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. (Suppl.) 5 90 The mass of short fibres removed in combing is called the noil.
1998 Textile Horizons June 18/3 Bioclip wool will also offer other processing advantages such as..decreases in comb noil.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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