wool fat

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Origin of wool fat

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby wool fat

wool classing, wool clip, woolen, wooler, Woolf, wool fat, woolfell, Woolf, Virginia, woolgather, woolgathering, woolgrower

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How to use wool fat in a sentence

Degras, wool fat and vaseline are greases used, and the drying and stretching finished off at 120 F.
Animal Proteins|Hugh Garner Bennett
Dioscorides was also learned in the preparation of wool fat, which he calls sypum, known to modern pharmacists as lanoline.
The Mystery and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy|Charles John Samuel Thompson
This wool fat or lanoline is used in making soap and ointments.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
Yolk consists very largely of two complex substances which have been termed wool perspiration and wool fat.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics|Franklin Beech

The wool fat consists largely of a peculiar fat-like body known as cholesterine.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics|Franklin Beech

British Dictionary definitions for wool fat

wool fat

wool grease

noun

another name for lanolin

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