| 单词 | wool clip |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswool clip wool clip n. = clip n.2 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > quantity of wool shorn fleecec1460 clipa1825 wool clip1862 1862 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1861: Agric. 131 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (37th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 39) V The wool-clip of New England commands a ready cash market in Boston. 1893 Times 18 July 2/6 The wool-clip of the year throughout Australia. 1977 Weekly Times (Melbourne) 19 Jan. 3/4 The Corporation had put proposals to the Minister for Primary Industry..to acquire the export portion of the Australian wool clip. 1984 N.Z. Farmer 12 Apr. 12/1 The wool clip never strayed far from about 5kg per sheep wintered. 1984 Oxf. Illustr. Hist. Britain iii. 160 Their reserves of liquid capital enabled Italian companies to offer attractive terms. They could not only buy an abbey's entire wool clip for the current year; they could also buy it for years in advance. < as lemmas |
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