Definition of Wool

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Definition of Wool

Wool

The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.

Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.

A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.

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Wool Quotations

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
Jim Elliot

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.
Tracey Ullman

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.
Robert Grosseteste

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.
Martin Lewis Perl

The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.
Charles Sturt

President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.
Ellen Tauscher

I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
Gary Coleman

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.
Alexandra Paul

Wool Translations

wool in Afrikaans is wol
wool in Danish is uld
wool in Dutch is wollen
wool in Finnish is villa
wool in French is laine
wool in German is Wolle
wool in Italian is lana
wool in Norwegian is ull
wool in Spanish is lana
wool in Swedish is ull, ylle, garn

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