Word Finder - wool

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The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.

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A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.

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Anything with a texture like that of wool.

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A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.

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Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.

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Yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)

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Derogatory term for residents of the satellite towns outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.

The most important internal industries are in wool and frozen meat.

X's woman just pulled the wool over his eyes.

Angora is connected with Constantinople by railway, and exports wool, mohair, grain and yellow berries.

Its wool was as soft as freshly washed hair and it bleated when she scooped it into her arms.

Andre was dressed in cashmere and wool, his hair kept short and neat, his loafers more expensive than Kris's conference room had cost to build.

Other manufactures of Kendal are machine-made boots and shoes, cards for wool and cotton, agricultural and other machinery, paper, and, in the neighbourhood, gunpowder.

She brushed one of the frozen women trapped in time on the sidewalk, surprised to feel her warm skin and the brush of the wool suit.

She emerged from the bathroom in flashy purple ski pants, a matching wool sweater.

Its material may be linen, wool, cotton or silk; but silk only is the rule for deacons.

A permanent memorial of it remains in the famous Order of the Golden Fleece, which was instituted by the duke at Bruges in 1430 on the occasion of his marriage with Isabel of Portugal, a descendant of John of Gaunt, and was so named from the English wool, the raw material used in the Flemish looms, for which Bruges was the chief mart.

Megan helped and stacked socks and underwear in her pile and then brought her a light wool jacket, leather gloves, hat, and scarf.

During the same period, owing to the efforts of pastoralists to improve their flocks, there was a gradual increase in the weight of wool produced per sheep from 341b to an average of over 71b.

Sheep have likewise been raised in Piauhy, but there is no market for mutton and their wool is not utilized.

She sat in the living room as masculine as he, surrounded by wood, wool, and leather in dark colors.

The opportunity of utilizing the wool for textile industries has not yet been taken, though Sardinian women are accustomed to weave strong and durable cloth.

It has post and telegraph offices and a lively trade in wool, cotton and dry fruits (almonds, pistachios).

Towards the en._ cf October 20,000 shearers were called out, and many other trades, principally concerned with the handling or shipping of wool, joined the ranks of the strikers, with the result that the maritime and pastoral industries throughout the whole of Australia were most injuriously disturbed.

After dressing in double sweaters, wool knickers and stockings, they racked their skis atop their jeep and drove south from town into the mountains.

The name "flock" is given to a material formed of wool or cotton refuse, or of shreds of old woollen or cotton rags, torn by a machine known as a "devil."

She tugged off her wool coat with some effort.

Its wool was also renowned.

She shivered despite her lamb's wool coat, her hands plunged deep into pockets that contained weapons.

She shivered in her wool coat, folded the paperwork, and called her sister.

Wiping her eyes, she pored through the rest of the paperwork, growing cold despite her wool coat in the middle of her warm apartment.

Soon they were snuggled beneath a heavy wool robe, gliding contentedly down the snow covered back roads of the Uncompahgre valley.

Taran looked down at his own richly spun wool and linen clothing, pitying the men on the beach.

In the Black Sea they exploited the shores of Pontus and Scythia, whose products they exchanged for textiles spun from the wool of their own country.

The rapid development of the foreign trade of the republic since 1881 is due to settled internal conditions and to the prime necessity to the commercial world of many Argentine products, such as beef, mutton, hides, wool, wheat and Indian corn.

WoolIn 1901, 161,000 persons were engaged in the spinning and other preparatory processes and in the weaving of wool.

Numerically the flocks of Australia represent one-sixth of the world's sheep, and in just over half a century (1851-1905) the exports of Australian wool alone reached the value of £650,000,000.

The principal items of export are wool, skins, tallow, frozen mutton, chilled beef, preserved meats, butter and other articles of pastoral produce, timber, wheat, flour and fruits, gold, silver, lead, copper, tin and other metals.

In 1905 the value of the wool export regained the £20,000,000 level, and with the rapid recovery of the numerical II.

Victoria produced already more wool than New South Wales,the aggregate produce of Australia in 1852 being 45,000,000 lb; and South Australia, between 1842 and this date, had opened most valuable mines of copper.

It was hard indeed for a carter drawing coal to a gasworks to recognize the necessity which compelled a reduction in his wages because wool had fallen 20 7 0.

The time chosen for the strike was the height of the wool season, when a cessation of work would be attended with the maximum of inconvenience.

Those who were reconciled were deprived of all honourable employment, and were forbidden to use gold, silver, jewelry, silk or fine wool.

In the 13th and 14th centuries Abingdon was a flourishing agricultural centre with an extensive trade in wool, and a famous weaving and clothing manufacture.

Uruguayan wool is favourably regarded in foreign markets, on account of the clean state in which it is shipped, this being largely due to the natural conditions of the land and climate.

The element also occurs in the animal and vegetable kingdoms. It is present in hair and wool, and in albuminous bodies; and is also a constituent of certain vegetable oils, such as the oils of garlic and mustard.

With regard to the imports into Russia-they consist mainly of raw materials and machinery for the manufactures, and of provisions, the principal items being raw cotton, 17% of the aggregate; machinery and metal goods, 13%; tea, 5%; mineral ores, 5%; gums and resins, 4%; wool and woollen yarns, 32%; textiles, 3%; fish, 3%; with leather and hides, chemicals, silks, wine and spirits, colours, fruits, coffee, tobacco and rice.

The long hauls in the United States make it specially important that the cars should carry a load in both directions, and so bcx cars which have carried grain or merchandise one way are filled with wool, coal, coke, ore, timber and other coarse articles for the return journey.

Important features of Greek sacrifice, though not necessarily found in every rite, were the putting of wreaths and pieces of wool on the victim, the gilding of its horns, the lustration of the officiant and the sprinkling of those present with holy water.

There are manufactures of wool and silk, and of straw hats and pottery.

The trade in wool still flourished in 1751.

Stephen Gray (1696-1736) noticed in 1720 that electricity could be excited by the friction of hair, silk, wool, paper and other bodies.

It's wool and is a bit scratchy.

A piece of cotton wool soaked in strong carbolic acid will relieve the pain of dental caries, but is useless in other forms of toothache.

Wool forms by far the largest export, and tallow, hides, bones and frozen mutton are also exported.

There are flour-mills and a trade in cereals, wool, tallow and hides.

Harwich has always had a considerable trade; in the 14th century merchants came even from Spain, and there was much trade in wheat and wool with Flanders.