a. Forms: 5–6 wolled, Sc. wollit (6 vollit), 6– woolled, 8– (now U.S.) wooled. [f. WOOL sb. + -ED2.]

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  1.  Bearing wool, covered with wool; having the wool still on, unshorn.

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1425.  Rolls of Parlt., IV. 292/2. Many … personnes leeden oute of the Royaume … grete nombre of Shepe wolled into Flaundres.

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1489.  Acta Dom. Conc. (1839), 117/1. v aulde wollit scheip.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, III. x. 9. The wollit scheip him followand at the bak.

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1550.  Rec. Elgin (New Spald. Cl., 1903), I. 104. The said vollit skynnis.

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1552.  Huloet, Wolled or wrapped in wolle, lanatus.

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1890.  H. D. Rawnsley, in Cornh. Mag., Oct., 385. At times we find a ‘woolled one’ on the fell after a shepherds’ meeting, then we just shear it.

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1898.  Westm. Gaz., 21 Sept., 6/3. Bales of woolled sheepskins.

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  2.  Having wool of a specified kind.

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1577.  Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., 137 b. Looke, that your Ewe haue a large body, deepe woolled.

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1611.  Cotgr., s.v. Houssu, Mouton houssu, a sheepe well woolled.

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1778.  D. Loch, Tour Scotl., 20. Well adapted for raising and feeding the best wooled sheep as any in Great Britain.

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1797.  Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), XVIII. 883/2. The best breeds of fine-woolled sheep.

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1801.  Farmer’s Mag., Jan. 75. Strictly attend to having and keeping a good long wooled skin upon the whole of their flocks.

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1886.  C. Scott, Sheep-Farming, 183. The original sheep in most countries where improved species are now found, were invariably fine wooled.

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  † b.  Of cloth: Having a (good) nap. Obs.

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1600.  Surflet, Country Farm, II. liii. 381. You must then couer such chafe with thicke new cloath being well woolled [Fr. bien lainu].

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