wool fleece | outer coat of especially sheep and yaks |
steel-wool pad | abrader consisting of a pad of steel wool used for polishing or smoothing |
wool woolen woollen | a fabric made from the hair of sheep |
wool stapler woolsorter | a person who sorts wool into different grades |
wool stapler | a dealer in wool |
Ravenna grass wool grass Erianthus ravennae | grass often cultivated for its long whiteibbed leaves and large plumes resembling those of pampas grass |
wool grass Scirpus cyperinus | sedge of eastern North America having numerous clustered woolly spikelets |
mineral wool rock wool | a light fibrous material used as an insulator |
steel wool wire wool | a mass of woven steel fibers used as an abrasive |
lanolin wool fat wool grease | a yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool, a mixture of fatty acids and esters, used in some ointments and cosmetics |
glass wool | glass fibers spun and massed into bundles resembling wool |
cotton cotton fiber cotton wool | soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state |
Shetland wool | a wool obtained from sheep of the Shetland islands |
wool | fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving |
raw wool | wool in its natural condition, not refined or processed |
virgin wool | wool not used before, wool not processed or woven before |
wool oil | any oil used to oil wool before spinning |
zinc oxide flowers of zinc philosopher's wool philosophers' wool | oxide of zinc, a white powder used as a pigment or in cosmetics or glass or inks and in zinc ointment |
bamboozle snow hoodwink pull the wool over someone's eyes lead by the nose play false | conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end, He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well |
long-wool long-wooled | (of sheep) having relatively long wool |
e arrant(a) complete(a) consummate(a) double-dyed(a) everlasting(a) gross(a) perfect(a) pure(a) sodding(a) stark(a) staring(a) thoroughgoing(a) utter(a) unadulterated | without qualification, used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers, an arrant fool, a complete coward, a consummate fool, a double-dyed villain, gross negligence, a perfect idiot, pure folly, what a sodding mess, stark staring mad, a thoroughgoing villain, utter nonsense, the unadulterated truth |
bleached colored coloured dyed | (used of color) artificially produced, not natural, a bleached blonde |