wool
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wool/wʊl/
▶noun the fine, soft curly or wavy hair forming the coat of a sheep, goat, or similar animal, especially when shorn and made into cloth or yarn.
■ the soft underfur or down of some other mammals.
■ a metal or mineral made into a mass of fine fibres: lead wool.
– phrases
pull the wool over someone's eyes deceive someone.
pull the wool over someone's eyes deceive someone.
– derivatives
wool-like adjective.
wool-like adjective.
– origin OE wull, of Gmc origin.
'wool' also found in these Oxford entries:
alpaca
- angora wool
- barège
- bobble
- bombast
- Botany
- broadcloth
- burgeon
- burl
- card
- carding wool
- carpet slipper
- cashmere
- Cheviot
- clip
- cloth
- cloth of gold
- comb
- comber
- combing wool
- Cotswold
- cotton
- cotton bud
- cotton wool
- dag
- dalmatic
- disentangle
- distaff
- dub
- dubbing
- dye
- earplug
- feel
- felt
- fingering
- flannel
- fleece
- floccule
- floccus
- flock
- flock wallpaper
- frieze
- glass wool
- grenadine
- grogram
- Guernsey
- hank
- heckle
- Jacob sheep
- Kashmir goat
