wool fleece | outer coat of especially sheep and yaks |
fabric cloth material textile | artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers, the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent, woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around BC, she measured off enough material for a dress |
figure loom figured-fabric loom | a loom for weaving figured fabrics |
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 |
framework fabric | the underlying structure, providing a factual framework for future research, it is part of the fabric of society |
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 |