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wooler

wooler noun: an animal raised for its wool, especially an angora rabbit.

Noun

wooler (plural woolers)

  1. An animal raised for its wool, especially an angora rabbit.
    • A big band of bleating sheep on the way to the loading pens at the station blocked her way where she would have crossed the street to Symes's house. She swore in a frenzy of impatience as she waited for them to pass in the cloud of choking dust raised by their tiny, pointed hoofs. ¶ "Way 'round...1912, Caroline Lockhart, The Lady Doc, Philadelphia, P.A.; London: J. B. Lippincott Company, page 329
    • "Why, what a shame!" Kate cried. "Snow Queen was one of the best woolers. They thought she would surely win at the stock show. They'll have to build that fence higher, won't they?"1941 December, Eleanor Hull, “Sky Rabbits Unlimited”, in The American Girl, volume XXIV, number XII, Dayton, O.H.: Girl Scouts, Inc., page 46
  2. Someone who works with wool.
    • He was fined another twenty pounds for usury after charging a local wooler — a Protestant — twenty pounds for a short-term hundred-pound loan.2008, Jess Winfield, My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare, New York, N.Y.; Boston, M.A.: Twelve, →ISBN, page 71
    • By six p.m., many of the town's residents have shown up to hear the traveling preacher. Standing in front of nearly seventy-five people, Francis peruses the gathering made up of village woolers, men and women who work sheep's wool for export.2015, Al DeFilippo, Black Country, Palm Beach Gardens, F.L.: Borrowed Light Productions, →ISBN, page 360
  3. (slang) A marijuana cigarette or cigar laced with crack cocaine.
    • Went to the bathroom, rolled myself a wooler1986 November 15, “Slow Ride”, in Licensed to Ill, performed by Beastie Boys
    • So I tell him, "How do you smoke this? Put it in the pipe; or do you smoke woolas [a crack and marijuana mixture]?" He said, "You got that too?" and I said, "No, I'm just asking." So he left.1995, Philippe Bourgois, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 112
    Synonyms:
    wool, woolie

Proper noun capitalized: Wooler

Wooler

  1. A small town and civil parish in northern Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NT9928).
  2. A community in Quinte West, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.
  3. A surname.

Examples of wooler in a sentence

  • "Hullo, Doc!" The Sheep King of Poison Creek waved a grimy, genial hand. ¶ "Hurry your infernal woolers along, can't you?" she yelled in response.1912, Caroline Lockhart, The Lady Doc, Philadelphia, P.A.; London: J. B. Lippincott Company, page 329:
  • With a cost of $1.00 to $2.00 per rabbit for feed, the profit should be at or near $5.00 per rabbit from good woolers which produce approximately one pound of wool each per year.1948 September, C. E. Waldner, “Angoras Do Pay Off”, in The Country Guide, volume LXVII, number 9, Winnipeg, MB: The Country Guide Limited...
  • The breeder who sells the rabbits at a very early age could very well be selling excellent woolers or possibly only average producers, only time will tell.2010, Janice Sephton, James Blake, Angora Rabbits & Their Wool, Midhurst, West Sussex: Beech Publishing House, →ISBN, page 112:
  • Funneling my money to a Flemish woolers' uprising!2020, Vesper Stamper, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 49:

Synonyms of wooler

Forms of wooler

pluralwoolers
alternative formwoola
alternative formwoolah

Origin of wooler

From wool + -er.

Questions about wooler

What does wooler mean?
Wooler means an animal raised for its wool, especially an angora rabbit.
How do you use wooler in a sentence?
"Hullo, Doc!" The Sheep King of Poison Creek waved a grimy, genial hand. ¶ "Hurry your infernal woolers along, can't you?" she yelled in response.
What part of speech is wooler?
Wooler can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of wooler?
The plural of wooler is woolers.

Words near wooler in the dictionary

  1. woolenets
  2. woolenette
  3. Woolenook
  4. woolens
  5. woolenwear
  6. wooler
  7. woolers
  8. Woolery
  9. Woolerys
  10. Woolever
  11. Woolevers

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