Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having wool: as, a fine wooled or medium wooled sheep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having (such) wool.
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- adjective Having
wool of a specified kind.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Reaching into the three-inch space of dust under the wardrobe, Tanya's hand wooled up like a fat, gray mitten.
The Orangery 2010
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Even with boards on thwarts offering a second level for sleeping on those whaleboats and cutters with their sides built up by Mr. Honey (the disassembled sledges also served as a crossed-T deck amidships on the crowded cutters and pinnace), wet-wooled bodies were pressed against wet-wooled bodies both day and night.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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For a moment he looked more like a red-wooled sheep than a bear.
Reiffeins Choice 2006
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We weren't untidy-we'd steel-wooled every crevice in the place when we moved in-but this one mouse had defeated us.
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They are petty, good – wooled, good – willed, grey people.
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Beyond those hills, according to Nytral and the maps, lies another valley, one where three families raise black-wooled sheep and some few field crops.
The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000
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In the beef ox and the mutton sheep, they are so connected to a large extent; in the dairy cow and the fine wooled sheep, this is quite a secondary consideration; -- in the horse, valued as he is for beauty, speed and draught, it is not thought of at all.
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The improved Cotswolds are among the largest British breeds, long wooled, prolific, good nurses, and of early maturity.
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New Oxford Downs which have frequently gained prizes at the great Agricultural Meetings as being the best long wooled sheep.
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"Oh, landy, banjo music suah am sweet!" cried an old white-wooled colored woman, with a jolly laugh.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South Laura Lee Hope
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