WOOLLEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woollen mean? 

• WOOLLEN (noun)
  The noun WOOLLEN has 1 sense:

1. a fabric made from the hair of sheep

  Familiarity information: WOOLLEN used as a noun is very rare.

• WOOLLEN (adjective)
  The adjective WOOLLEN has 1 sense:

1. of or related to or made of wool

  Familiarity information: WOOLLEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOLLEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fabric made from the hair of sheep

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

wool; woolen; woollen

Hypernyms ("woollen" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Holonyms ("woollen" is a substance of...):

tweed (thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in Scotland)

Derivation:

woollen (of or related to or made of wool)

• WOOLLEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or related to or made of wool

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

woolen; woollen

Context example:

a woolen sweater

Pertainym:

wool (a fabric made from the hair of sheep)

Derivation:

woollen (a fabric made from the hair of sheep)

 Context examples 

He was naked save for a linen under shirt and pair of woollen drawers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He pulled out his watch, and after some fumbling got it back into the breast pocket of his thick woollen jacket.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Since my last return I find the breed is considerably increased, especially the sheep, which I hope will prove much to the advantage of the woollen manufacture, by the fineness of the fleeces.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Every woollen filament of our garments, every hair of our heads and faces, was jewelled with a crystal globule.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I wish the woollen stockings were better looked to!—when I was here last, I went into the kitchen-garden and examined the clothes drying on the line; there was a quantity of black hose in a very bad state of repair: from the size of the holes in them I was sure they had not been well mended from time to time.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Making this, in turn, fast to the spring-pole attached to the kitchen rafters, so that the hub played upon the woollens in the barrel, he was able, with one hand, thoroughly to pound them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now, however, instead of the great white cloak, he had no clothes on at all, save a short woollen shirt and a pair of leather shoes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Clinging to the woodwork, staggering with the roll of the ship, and aided by the cook, I managed to slip into a rough woollen undershirt.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Ranged on benches down the sides of the room, the eighty girls sat motionless and erect; a quaint assemblage they appeared, all with plain locks combed from their faces, not a curl visible; in brown dresses, made high and surrounded by a narrow tucker about the throat, with little pockets of holland (shaped something like a Highlander's purse) tied in front of their frocks, and destined to serve the purpose of a work-bag: all, too, wearing woollen stockings and country-made shoes, fastened with brass buckles.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Martin washed woollens that day, by hand, in a large barrel, with strong soft-soap, by means of a hub from a wagon wheel, mounted on a plunger- pole that was attached to a spring-pole overhead.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)