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mortling

[ mawrt-ling ]

noun

, British.
  1. wool obtained from dead sheep.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mortling1

1400–50; earlier morling, late Middle English; probably by suffix substitution from mor ( t ) kin dead animal < Anglo-French mortekine, for Old French mortecine (≪ Latin morticīnus (of an animal) having died naturally) with final conformed to Middle English -kin -kin; -ling 1

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