to wool
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8.4
- verb
- /wʊl/
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esquilar
- I forgot what the quote was, but essentially it, it went along the lines of, you know, wooling people is easy and you're the easiest person to fool.
Examples
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He tells a story full of stories, from port cities and fathers and sons to friends and enemies and debts to wool dyeing and ships of fools, to the sun and line and cave and the Myth of Er.
Blog text (7) -
Farmers often wool the sheep in spring to prepare for the warmer months.
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It can have sheep, it can do wool very well, right?
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With a little fur collar and cuffs, and wool the color of camel's hair.
Fiction book (1992) -
The rancher plans to wool the flock to collect the fine fleece.
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To increase their yield, we need to wool the goats before the summer heat arrives.
Synonyms
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3.5
To cut wool or hair from an animal with large scissors
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4.2
Remove the wool from a sheep
To cut the wool off a sheep
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
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7.9
To protect someone too much so they do not learn to deal with problems
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.2
New material from sheep that has not been used or made into cloth before
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3.2
A small cleaning tool of thin metal threads used to remove dirt or smooth surfaces
- UK
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4.6
A pad of fine steel fibers used to clean and smooth metal and other hard surfaces
- Informal
A person who always expects things to turn out well and stays positive
- Specialized
A light material of thin rock or glass fibers that stops heat moving and reduces sound
- Specialized
A soft mass of very thin glass threads used to keep buildings warm and quiet
- Specialized
A light, fluffy material made from melted rock used to keep buildings warm and safe from fire
- Specialized
A yellow, greasy material from sheep's wool used in creams and skin products
- Specialized
People put oil on wool before spinning to make fibers soft and easy to spin
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wool (verb) comes from the same old word wull meaning 'sheep's soft hair', so to wool an animal is to remove and collect that soft hair by shearing.