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Floccillation :: Floccillation (n.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases..

Cretonne :: Cretonne (n.) A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft.

Willying :: Willying (n.) The process of cleansing wool, cotton, or the like, with a willy, or willow..

Carder :: Carder (n.) One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc..

Gimp :: Gimp (n.) A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc..

Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..

Hottentot :: Hottentot (n.) One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts..

Bombast :: Bombast (n.) Originally, cotton, or cotton wool..

Pelotage :: Pelotage (n.) Packs or bales of Spanish wool.

Piecener :: Piecener (n.) One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.

Yolk :: Yolk (n.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.

Rove :: Rove (v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning..

Cadet :: Cadet (n.) A young man in training for military or naval service; esp. a pupil in a military or naval school, as at West Point, Annapolis, or Woolwich..

Fellmonger :: Fellmonger (n.) A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts..

Pannose :: Pannose (a.) Similar in texture or appearance to felt or woolen cloth.

Abb :: Abb (n.) Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb..

Woolgrower :: Woolgrower (n.) One who raises sheep for the production of wool.

Riffler :: Riffler (n.) A curved file used in carving wool and marble.

Fabricate :: Fabricate (v. t.) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens..

Ringhead :: Ringhead (n.) An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth.

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