WOOLEN • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Woolen

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/wˈʊlən/ Listen

adjective

Woolen adj. (Written also woollen)

Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods.

Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper.

Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent layers.

noun

Woolen n. Cloth made of wool; woollen goods.

See images of 'Woolen'

Etymology of 'Woolen'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Woolen" Quotes from Famous Books

... on his coat and overcoat, secure a fur cap on his head by a woolen comforter, covering his ears and twined round his throat, and to rigidly offer a square and weather-beaten cheek to his daughter's dusty kiss, did not, apparently, suggest any lingering or hesitation. The sled was at the door, which, for a tumultuous moment, opened on the ...

— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... returned to France and I became a teacher in the school of Madame Nau. Here I studied and taught. On me fell all the burden of the school while Madame Nau amused herself with harp and piano. For this I had only $150 a year. To further assist my family I knit woolen jackets. They were a great deal of trouble to me and I was very grateful to Madame Isaac Iselin, the mother of Mr. Adrain Iselin, who always found purchasers to give me excellent prices. Ah, I was young then. I ...

— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur

... not answer and only pulled out a bunch of woolen stockings and a heavy winter cloak, spreading ...

— Maezli - A Story of the Swiss Valleys • Johanna Spyri

... fought us thay had scatter'd loose powder on their decks, which tooke a fier by some accident or other, that wee seeing itt borded them and tooke them. these 7 sayle of shipps we tooke att Pennamau was not above half unloded. their lading was flower, linnen and woolen cloath, one greate shipp half laden with Iron. wee desierd of capt. Berralto which wear the best saylors. he told us on his word the Trinnity was the best in the South Seas, soe wee pitched on her for ...

— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various

... pleasant, so we went up and rang and a maid showed us into a parlor. We knew right off we didn't want to come there, because the place was so dark and stuffy and there were fourteen hundred family photographs and knit woolen mats and such things around. I was going to sit down but just as I got near the chair,—it was rather dark, you see,—something said 'Hello!' and there was a horrid great parrot sitting on the back of the chair. ...

— The Spanish Chest • Edna A. Brown

More quotes...