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wool-dyed

wool-dyed adjective: dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece-dyed.

Adjective

wool-dyed (not comparable)

  1. Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece-dyed.
  2. (figuratively) Dyed-in-the-wool; set in one's ways; steadfast.
    • a wool-dyed Baptist1868, Henry Mills Alden, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Questions about wool-dyed

What does wool-dyed mean?
Wool-dyed means dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece-dyed.
What part of speech is wool-dyed?
Wool-dyed is an adjective.

Words near wool-dyed in the dictionary

  1. wool sorters
  2. wool stapler
  3. wool staplers
  4. wool wax
  5. Wool Wool
  6. wool-dyed
  7. wool-fat
  8. wool-gather
  9. wool-gathering
  10. wool-gatherings
  11. wool-headed

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