wool clip

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noun

the total yield of wool shorn during one season from the sheep of a particular region.

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Origin of wool clip

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby wool clip

Wookey Hole, wool, wool bale, wool cheque, wool classing, wool clip, woolen, wooler, Woolf, wool fat, woolfell

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How to use wool clip in a sentence

Again, among those who operate and deal in wool there is an active demand for money in the wool-clip in the spring months.
Up To Date Business|Various
It was no unusual occurrence for one wool clip to be detained on a remote station until the next year's shearing had commenced.
Our First Half-Century|Government of Queensland
Just think, Rush, he paid three hundred dollars for it—nearly a third of what the wool-clip brought!'
Heart of the West|O. Henry
Just think, Rush, he paid three hundred dollars for it --nearly a third of what the wool-clip brought!'
Heart of the West|O. Henry

What causes the difference between the wool clip of southern California and that of the Eastern States?
Commercial Geography|Jacques W. Redway

British Dictionary definitions for wool clip

wool clip

noun

the total amount of wool shorn from a particular flock, or from flocks in a particular region or country, in one year

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