Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- The wool of lambs, used in manufacture; hence, delicate wool, as of certain breeds of sheep or of lambs, or of mixed varieties, used for the manufacture of hosiery.
- Ale mixed with sugar, nutmeg, and the pulp of roasted apples.
Examples
“Use a lamb's-wool mitt for washing and soft cotton rags or microfiber towels for waxing.”
“Buy a lamb's-wool cover for the steering wheel, the kind used for cold winter driving.”
“Apply the suds with a large, soft natural sponge or a lamb's-wool mitt — making sure they are clean, so as to avoid potential scratches from embedded particles.”
Consumer Reports: Spring cleaning tips: How to wash away winter and get your car looking like new
“Apply the suds with a large, soft natural sponge or a lamb's-wool mitt—making sure they are clean, so as to avoid potential scratches from embedded particles.”
Consumer Reports: Spring cleaning tips: How to wash away winter and get your car looking like new
“Apply the suds with a large, soft natural sponge or a lamb's-wool mitt.”
“Williams-Sonoma hawks a $135 Australian lamb's-wool duster set.”
“Is not homespun cloth as great a preservative against cold, as a coat of Tartar lamb's-wool, died in grain, or a gown of giant's beards?”
“I find those that commend use of apples, in splenetic and this kind of melancholy (lamb's-wool some call it), which howsoever approved, must certainly be corrected of cold rawness and wind.”
“The lamb's-wool vest he wore had no sleeves, revealing his hefty shoulders and brawny arms.”
“His unfastened three-quarter-length sheepskin coat was held to the body by a woven wool girdle and his trousers were bulkily padded, probably with lamb's-wool.”
Lists
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Drinky~time, or That Most Happy of Hours
impairement! oh lugubrious libations of unenviable inebriation
all sorts, cock ale, soot-tea, stirrup-dram, steel-wine, aurum potable, burying-drink, ambergris, butler's ale, metheglin, morning purl, mum and 45 more...
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ruzuzu "Robert Herrick's poem Twelfe-Night, or King and Queene (published 1648) describes the election of king and queen by bean and pea in a plum cake, and the homage done to them by the draining of wassail bowls of "lamb's-wool", a drink of sugar, nutmeg, ginger and ale."
--From the Wikipedia article about Twelfth Night Jan 5, 2011
missanthropist A favourite liquor among the common people, composed of ale and roasted apples. The pulp of the roasted apple was worked up with the ale until this mixture formed a smooth beverage.
Fanciful etymologies for this popular word have been thought of, but it was probably named for its smoothness, resembling the wool of lambs.
Robert Nares, Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859 Feb 4, 2009