Definitions for wool

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wool wool

Spelling: [woo l]

IPA: /wʊl/

Wool is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in wool (loow).

Definitions for wool

noun

1. the fine, soft, curly hair that forms the fleece of sheep and certain other animals, characterized by minute, overlapping surface scales that give it its felting property.
2. fabrics and garments of such wool.
3. yarn made of such wool.
4. any of various substances used commercially as substitutes for the wool of sheep or other animals.
5. any of certain vegetable fibers, as cotton or flax, used as wool, especially after preparation by special process (vegetable wool)
6. any finely fibrous or filamentous matter suggestive of the wool of sheep:
7. any coating of short, fine hairs or hairlike processes, as on a caterpillar or a plant; pubescence.
8. Informal. the human hair, especially when short, thick, and crisp.

Idioms

1. all wool and a yard wide, genuine; excellent; sincere:
2. dyed in the wool, inveterate; confirmed:
3. pull the wool over someone's eyes, to deceive or delude someone:

Origin of wool

before 900; Middle English wolle, Old English wull(e), cognate with Dutch wol, German Wolle, Old Norse ull, Gothic wulla; akin to Latin lāna, Sanskrit ūrṇā, Welsh gwlân wool, Latin vellus fle

Examples for wool

Did away with one pack-saddle, and repaired the others with the wool.

On the eighth day of the assizes there were but fifty of us left in the wool warehouse.

It may serve as a sample of his wool, for invariably it is home made.

It is said to be sometimes finer than silk, and longer than the wool of a sheep.

The wool design by Maddalena Forcella brings to mind the gang warfare and violence that has plagued Mexico.

The best of us are not above trying to pull the wool over our own eyes, at times.

In true locker-room style, she rocks bejeweled Céline Birkenstocks with wool socks and a pair of gold-framed Versace sunglasses.

Turns out that wool regulates temperature, repels water, wicks away moisture, and resists stains and dirt.

The collection includes leather pants, fringed boots, silk t-shirts, and wool blazers.

Plus, as Middleton says, “Many great vintage and the Burberry come with wool linings.”