eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. iii. 42 Wiþ þon gif earan dynien genim ele, do on mid eowocigre wulle & fordytte þæt eare mid þære wulle.

eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xxxi. 74 Lege on þone swile, ofer lege mid claðe & mid eowcigre wulle bind on.

1609 in M. Cash Devon Inventories 16th & 17th Cent. (1966) 24 All the yeokye and washed wooll.

1771 ‘The Trifler’ Muse in Miniature 130 The cackling tribe, which on my pension live, With golden gills the yolky tribute pay; Their wooly vests my sheep with pleasure give.

1791 H. Wansey Wool Encouraged 54 No elasticity, with many dead white hairs in it, very yolky, &c.

1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool ii. 105 These substances render it [sc. wool] dry and hard, destitute of that lustre and yolky appearance, which most other wool possesses.

1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 130 The fleece falls to pieces in a vexatious fashion on the table, especially if the sheep has been fed for the shambles, or is naturally very yolky.

1929 H. B. Smith Sheep & Wool Industry Austral. & N.Z. (ed. 3) 209 Fribby, short locky pieces of wool such as second cuts and small black yolky locks from crutch and under fore-legs of sheep.

1958 R. Sutcliff Warrior Scarlet xi. 145 And letting go the sheep he had just taken from the pen, stretched out his yolky hand and caught her wrist.

1983 C. Fyfle Bale Fillers ii. 53 The wool was not up to the standard of the previous year, being very yolky.

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. b.iv^v Coler prassine, lyke the colour of y^e herbe called prassion..is engendred of the yolkynes whan hit is burned: for y^e burnyng causeth a yolky blackenes in y^e coler [L. facit in colera vitellina nigredinem].

1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 9 Yelky choler, like to the yelkes of egges.

1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 156 I was he that did the first discover Your Saffron yolkie band.

1769 R. W. Johnson New Syst. Midwifery i. viii. 71 The colour of the vessels was first yelky, and afterwards rusty.

1782 tr. M. ibn Muḥammad Jighmīnī Short Canons Art of Physic i. ii. 5 Unnatural bile is of four kinds:..the second, yolky bile, impregnated with a thick moisture.

1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 80 Vield's eggs was more yokier than their's was.

1889 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. May 11 Small round, highly refractive yolky particles were present in the egg protoplasm.

1918 W. J. Locke Rough Road ix. 104 With a hazardous plunge of his spoon he had made a yellow yelky horror of the egg-shell.

1992 Guardian 10. 10 She is wearing a yellow chiffon scarf, a billowing taffeta skirt and socks, all of the same yolky hue.

2011 R. Fortey Survivors vii. 190 Because the eggs are also yolky, the hatchlings do not have to feed for a few days.

1805 D. Mushet in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 95 167 The fracture [of the steel bars] was gray, tore out a little in breaking, but was otherwise yolky and excessively dense.

1813 J. Headrick Gen. View Agric. Angus 34 Beds of coarse pudding-stone, or gravel, or yolky-stone, as it is here called.

1866 C. Knight Geography II. 1050 In descending from the Grampians to Strathmore the first rock that occurs after the porphyry is a coarse pudding-stone... It is sometimes called ‘yolky stone’, from being composed of numerous rounded pebbles resembling yolks of eggs.