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materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have some properties similar to animal wool. As an animal fiber, wool consists of protein together...

(wool) Wool Wool bale Wool measurement Wool-sorter's disease, a historical name for anthrax Australian Wool Corporation; Australian Council of Wool Exporters...

television series created by Graham Yost, based on the Silo trilogy of novels (Wool, Shift, and Dust) by author Hugh Howey. Set in a dystopian future where a...

Greenwood trained as a weaver, and then apprenticed as a wool sorter and remained in the wool sorting trade for 26 years. At 18 Greenwood became secretary...

Woolsorters' Society (NWS) was a trade union representing workers involved in sorting wool in the United Kingdom, principally in Yorkshire. The union was founded...

Vicuña wool refers to the hair of the South American vicuña, a camelid related to llamas and alpacas. The wool has, after shahtoosh, the second smallest...

Wire wool is a generic term for products made of filaments entwined, woven or otherwise agglomerated into a sort of felt pad or belt that is often rolled...

author. Turner was born in Sowerby, Yorkshire, the third son of Robert, a wool sorter, and Elizabeth Turner. At the age of eight, he was sent to work at Peel...

A wool-stapler is a dealer in wool. The wool-stapler buys wool from the producer, sorts and grades it, and sells it on to manufacturers. Some wool-staplers...

construction circa 1892, Harrop is described in city directories as a wool sorter, but, over the following years, he became a real estate developer. The...

Utica, N.Y., from 1905 until his death in 1961. Lincoln was the son of wool sorter Edwin Holroyd and grandson of the celebrated poet Abraham Holroyd of...

Pulled wool also referred to as "skin wool". Pulled wool has several alternative names such as "slipe wool", "glovers' wool", "tanners' wool" and, "dead...

and writing, for me, were as remote as any of the sciences." By now a wool-sorter earning a pound a week, after 1870 Wright became increasingly fascinated...

mills make wool top, a semi-processed product from raw wool. The process requires that the wool be scoured (washed) and combed and sorted. The longer...

West, the sixth of seven sons for John Mason, an English-born Welsh wool-sorter and Lydia Sarah Campbell, a Quebec-born housewife of Scottish background...

married Mary Jane Bates (1822 – 5 August 1897), daughter of James Bates, a wool sorter of Halifax. They had no children. The England Census 1841–1891 describes...

spores such as Anthrax. Historically, this infection was referred to as Wool-sorter's Disease. In the lungs, spores can spread via lymphatics to mediastinal...

in Novopavlovsk, Russian SFSR. For the next two years he worked as a wool sorter at a storing department in Shaki, Azerbaijan. In 1986 he became senior...

A wool bale is a standard sized and weighted pack of classed wool compressed by the mechanical means of a wool press. This is the regulation required method...

boss carder, two boss weavers, one laborer, one helper, one dyer, one wool sorter, one picker, two teamsters, one spinner, one blacksmith, one wagonmaker...