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LAMB'S WOOL

Specialty Definition: LAMB'S WOOL

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Lamb's Wool A beverage consisting of the juice of apples roasted over spiced ale. A great day for this drink was the feast of the apple-gathering, called in Irish la mas ubhal, pronounced "lammas ool," and corrupted into "lamb's wool."
"The pulpe of the rosted apples, in number foure or five ... mixed in a wine quart of faire water, laboured together until it come to be as apples and ale, which we call lambes wool."- Johnson's Gerard, p. 1460. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

LAMB'S WOOL. Apples roasted and put into strong ale. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: LAMB'S WOOL

Expressions using "LAMB'S WOOL": waste of sheep's or lamb's wool yarn of combed sheep's or lamb's wool. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LAMB'S WOOL

Language Translations for "LAMB'S WOOL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

агнешка вълна. (various references)

   

Czech

  

jehnìèí vlna. (various references)

   

Danish

  

lammeuld. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

wol (wool), weefsel van wol (woven fabric of sheep's or lamb's wool), rafelwol (garnetted wool, pulled wool, reclaimed wool, reprocessed wool, reworked wool, waste of sheep's or lamb's wool), niet gekaard of gekamd (not carded or combed, sheep's or lamb's wool), kamgaren (worsted), kaardgaren van wol (carded wool yarn, yarn of carded sheep's or lamb's wool), gekamde wol (combed sheep's or lamb's wool), afval van wol (waste of sheep's or lamb's wool). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

karitsanvilla. (various references)

   

French

  

laine d'agneau. (various references)

   

German

  

lammwolle. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μαλλί από αρνί, αρνόμαλλο. (various references)

   

Italian

  

lana agnellina. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ラマルク説 (Lamarckism, lamb, lambda, Lambda rocket, lambskin, laminate, RAM, rum, rump, soda pop). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ラ ウール . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amb'slay oolway

   

Portuguese

  

lã de cordeiro. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

lânã miţã. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lana de cordero. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lammull (lambswool). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kuzu yünü. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LAMB'S WOOL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-b-l-l-m-o-o-s-w"

-3 letters: mallows, osmolal.

-4 letters: abloom, allows, blooms, mallow, moolas, sallow, slalom.

-5 letters: allow, ambos, awols, balls, balms, bawls, blams, blaws, bloom, blows, bolas, bolls, bolos, booms, bosom, bowls, lambs, loams, lobos, looms, malls, molal, molas, molls, moola, mools, obols, ollas, osmol, salol, sambo, small, walls, wombs, wools.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LAMB'S WOOL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 41 4D 42 27 53      57 4F 4F 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01001101 01000010 00100111 01010011 00100000 01010111 01001111 01001111 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#77 &#66 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#87 &#79 &#79 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 004D 0042 0027 0053      0057 004F 004F 004C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46354736953257494946

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INDEX

1. Expressions
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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