Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The wool of lambs, used in manufacture; hence, delicate wool, as of certain breeds of sheep or of lambs, or of mixed varieties, used for the manufacture of hosiery.
- Ale mixed with sugar, nutmeg, and the pulp of roasted apples.
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Examples
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Use a lamb's-wool mitt for washing and soft cotton rags or microfiber towels for waxing.
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Apply the suds with a large, soft natural sponge or a lamb's-wool mitt—making sure they are clean, so as to avoid potential scratches from embedded particles.
Spring cleaning tips: How to wash away winter and get your car looking like new 2010
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Buy a lamb's-wool cover for the steering wheel, the kind used for cold winter driving.
Hints From Heloise 2010
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Apply the suds with a large, soft natural sponge or a lamb's-wool mitt — making sure they are clean, so as to avoid potential scratches from embedded particles.
Spring cleaning tips: How to wash away winter and get your car looking like new 2010
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Apply the suds with a large, soft natural sponge or a lamb's-wool mitt.
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Williams-Sonoma hawks a $135 Australian lamb's-wool duster set.
The Joy of Housework 2009
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Apply the suds with a large, soft natural sponge or a lamb's-wool mitt.
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Apply the suds with a large, soft natural sponge or a lamb's-wool mitt.
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Apply the suds with a large, soft natural sponge or a lamb's-wool mitt.
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Is not homespun cloth as great a preservative against cold, as a coat of Tartar lamb's-wool, died in grain, or a gown of giant's beards?
missanthropist commented on the word lamb's-wool
A favourite liquor among the common people, composed of ale and roasted apples. The pulp of the roasted apple was worked up with the ale until this mixture formed a smooth beverage.
Fanciful etymologies for this popular word have been thought of, but it was probably named for its smoothness, resembling the wool of lambs.
Robert Nares, Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859
February 4, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word lamb's-wool
"Robert Herrick's poem Twelfe-Night, or King and Queene (published 1648) describes the election of king and queen by bean and pea in a plum cake, and the homage done to them by the draining of wassail bowls of "lamb's-wool", a drink of sugar, nutmeg, ginger and ale."
--From the Wikipedia article about Twelfth Night
January 5, 2011
Gammerstang commented on the word lamb's-wool
(noun) - (1) A favorite liquor among the common people, composed of ale and roasted apples. The pulp of the roasted apple was worked up with the ale till the mixture formed a smooth beverage. Fanciful etymologies for this popular word have been thought of, but it was probably named from its smoothness, resembling the wool of lambs. --Robert Nares' Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859 (2) The pulpe of the roasted apples, in number foure or five, according to the greatnesse of the apples, mixed in a quart of faire water, laboured together untill it come to be as apples and ale, which we call lambes-wooll. --Thomas Johnson's Gerard's Herball, 1633 (3) A corruption of la mas ubhal, that is, the day of the apple fruit. --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850
April 23, 2018