The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
An insulating wooly jacket
Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
Insulating skin with the wool attached
To con or trick (someone) out of money.
To cover with, or as if with, wool.
To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
The material cut off in this way.
Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
The act or operation of reaping.
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
The act or operation of dividing with shears.
Tending to cut or tear.