wool

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Related topics: Animals, Clothes, Material & textiles, Agriculture

wool /wʊl/ S3 noun [uncountableU]

HBAthe soft thick hair that sheep and some goats have on their body 羊毛 → lambswool

2 DCCTIMmaterial made from wool 毛织物

a pure wool skirt

纯羊毛裙子

a mix of 80% wool and 20% man-made fibres

80%羊毛和20%人造纤维的混纺织物

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3 DLTIMthread made from wool that you use to knit clothes 毛线，绒线 SYN American English yarn

a ball of wool

一团毛线

4. pull the wool over somebody’s eyes TRICK/DECEIVEto deceive someone by not telling the truth 蒙骗某人

Examples from the Corpus

pull the wool over somebody’s eyes• Don't try and pull the wool over my eyes - I can tell you've been smoking.• He found out we had been pulling the wool over his eyes for quite some time.• There are people who can pull the wool over peoples' eyes.• You can not pull the wool over Hooper's eyes.• You can't pull the wool over my eyes like that.• But it's not easy to pull the wool over our eyes.• The only conclusion a consumer can reach is that Microsoft managed to pull the wool over the eyes of millions of users.• The politicians are just trying to pull the wool over voters' eyes again.

→ cotton wool , dyed-in-the-wool , steel wool , wire wool

Examples from the Corpus

wool• Is this coat wool?• Everyone else in the camp wore much-darned wool and cotton stockings.• Intense heat and charcoal fumes from their stoves ensured that few wool combers reached the age of fifty.• Boil eggs and decorate them with paints and put tufts of wool on for hair.• Sheep smell, too-of lanolin, the fatty exudate that waterproofs their wool.

Origin wool

Old English wull

wool noun

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