wool /wŭl/

1. The fleece of sheep, goats, yaks, etc, a modified kind of hair of which the fibres are soft, fine and curly, with an imbricated surface that makes for felting
2. This spun into yarn or thread for knitting or weaving
3. Fabric or clothing woven or knitted from such yarn
4. Downy hair under the coat of any of various furry animals
5. Short crisply-curling human hair, or (facetious) one's hair generally
6. Short, thick human hair
7. Any light, fleecy substance like wool, eg the fine soft fibres of some plants
8. Any substance with a fibrous texture, resembling wool, eg steel wool, glass wool, wood wool

Made of or relating to wool

woolled /wŭld/ adjective

Bearing wool

woolˈ-like adjective

woolˈward adverb (obsolete)

With wool next the skin, esp as a penance

wool ball noun

A ball of wool, such as is sometimes found in a sheep's stomach

woolˈ-bearing adjective

Bearing or yielding wool

wool card or wool comb noun

A machine for woolˈ-carding or woolˈ-combing, separating the fibres of wool preparatory to spinning

woolˈ-carder or woolˈ-comber noun

wool church noun

An English, esp East Anglian, church built or converted using funds accrued during the Tudor wool-trade boom, many seeming of inappropriate size and grandeur for their setting

wool clip noun

A crop of wool from a particular flock of sheep, esp that gathered in one season

woolˈ-driver noun

A buyer-up of wool

woolˈ-dyed adjective

Dyed before spinning or weaving

woolˈfat noun

Lanolin

woolˈfell noun (archaic)

The skin with the wool still on it

woolˈ-gathering noun

Absent-minded dreaming

adjective

1. Dreamy
2. Absent-minded

woolˈ-grower noun

A breeder of sheep for the production of wool

woolˈ-growing noun

woolˈman noun

A dealer in wool

wool mill noun

A woollen mill

wool oil noun

1. Any oil obtained from woolfat
2. An oil used to oil wool before spinning

woolˈpack noun

1. The bag in which wool was formerly packed for sale, or the fabric of which it was made
2. A bale or bundle of wool, esp formerly weighing 240lb
3. Cirro-cumulus cloud
4. The woolsack (obsolete)

woolˈ-packer noun

woolˈ-picker noun

A machine for cleaning wool

woolˈsack noun

1. (also with cap) the seat of the speaker of the House of Lords, being a large square sack of wool covered with scarlet
2. The office of Lord Chancellor (historical)

wool shears plural noun

Shears used in shearing sheep

woolˈshed noun (Aust and NZ)

A large shed for shearing sheep and baling wool

woolˈsorter noun

A person who sorts wool according to quality, etc

woolsorter's disease noun

Anthrax

wool staple noun

1. The fibre or pile of wool
2. A market where wool was sold

woolˈ-stapler noun

1. A dealer in wool
2. A woolsorter

woolˈ-winder noun

A person who packs fleeces

woolˈwork noun

Needlework done in wool, usu in canvas, imitative of tapestry

against the wool

Against the texture of the wool, the wrong way

dye in the wool

1. To dye (wool) before spinning
2. See also dye¹

great or much cry and little wool

Much palaver and little result

keep one's wool on (informal)

To keep one's hair on, stay calm

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