woolfell

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English

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Etymology

wool +‎ fell; see fell (“skin”).

Noun

woolfell (plural woolfells)

  1. A skin with the wool attached.
    • a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, “A.D. 1610. Ætat. 50.”, in James Spedding, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, : The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon , volume IV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1858, →OCLC, page 194:
      For first Mr. Dier's opinion was that the ancient custom for exportation was by the common laws; and goeth furder, that that ancient custom was the custom upon wools, woolfells, and leather.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “woolfell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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