| 单词 | pelt wool |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspelt wool pelt wool n. now rare wool taken from the skin of a dead sheep; cf. pell wool n. at pell n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > from sheep > from dead sheep pelt wool1341 pell wool1404 morling1448 skin wool1495 fell wool1677 slipe1856 1341 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 26 (MED) [Lambs' wool, twice shorn wool, and other wool called] peltewolle..[100 sacks of] lambwoll [and] peltwoll. 1543 tr. Act 8 Hen. VI c. 22 That no man..put in the same [fleese], lokkes, peltwol, tarre, sand, yerth, grasse, nor no dyrt [Fr. lokkes pelwoll tarre peers sablon terre ne herbe, ne nulle autre order]. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Pelt-wool, wool stripped of the skin or pelt of a dead sheep. 1901 Times 7 Aug. 9/1 The arrival of about 1,800 bales of..Baghdad wool, which on examination do not appear to be equal in quality to last year's, and contain a large admixture of pelt wool. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 623/1 Pelt wool, wool which has been removed by the fellmonger from the pelts of slaughtered sheep. < as lemmas |
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