ˈwool-fell Hist.
[fell n.1]
= wool-skin.
| 1422 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 173/2 All sakkes of Wolle and Wolle felle yshipped by Marchants Englissh. 1543 tr. Stat. Staple 27 Edw. III c. 1 The staple of wolles, lether, wolfelles, and leade growynge and commyng forth within our sayd realme. 1612 Davies Why Ireland, etc. 41 Wooll and Wooll-fels were euer of little value in this Kingdome. 1675 Hobbes Odyssey xvi. 39 To which [seat] Eumæus a Wool-fell apply'd With Rushes under it. 1765 Blackstone Comm. I. viii. 304 The duties on wool, sheep-skins, or wool⁓fells, and leather, exported, were called custuma antiqua sive magna. 1829 R. Thomson Magna Charta 389 A half mark upon every 300 wool-fells, or undressed sheep-skins. 1888 Dowden Transcripts 196 Chaucer loved the woolfells and leather of the Petty Customs only because they helped to save his purse from getting light. |