| 单词 | wool-blind |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswool-blind wool-blind adj. Australian and New Zealand (of a sheep) having its sight obscured by its growth of wool; also elliptical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [adjective] > of sheep: blinded by wool covering eyes wool-blind1933 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > of sheep: blindness due to wool covering eyes > wool-blind sheep wool-blind1933 1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 14 Oct. 15/7 Eye-clip, to cut the wool away from round a sheep's eyes. If this is not done, the wool, especially on merinos, is apt to grow over the eyes and make the sheep wool-blind. Some people speak of eye-clipping as Winking. 1953 B. Stronach Musterer on Molesworth viii. 54 Our next job was to eye clip the lambs, for many of them were wool-blind. 1955 J. Morrison in B. James Austral. Short Stories (1963) 158 Worse than pushing a mob of wool-blinds up the ramp of a shearing shed. 1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 37 The wig is removed with all the wool during shearing..because, if it is not done, the sheep may become ‘wool-blind’ before shearing time. < as lemmas |
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