wood-wool
English
Noun
wood-wool (uncountable)
- Alternative form of wood wool
- 1894, Medical Summary - Volume 16, page 43:
- The writer has frequently made use of Hartmann's wood-wool as a dressing in his operations on the brain, and as he also induced a number of colleagues to observe its effect, he can speak from experience.
- 2002, Tom Woolley, Sam Kimmins, & Rob Harrison, Green Building Handbook, →ISBN:
- The raw material for wood-wool boards is likely to be 'waste' from other wood processes.
- 2008, Alan Thompson & Claude Goodchild, Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps, →ISBN:
- If you cannot get hay or wood-wool, several thicknesses of old blankets will do for the nest, and cut-up paper will do for the floor.
- 2011, Robert W. Shumaker, Kristina R. Walkup, & Benjamin B. Beck, Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals, →ISBN:
- These individuals also used wood-wool and leaves to Absorb water from the floor or from a container, after which they sucked the water out of the sponging tool.
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