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woolgathering

noun

Etymology

From wool + gathering.

  1. inherited from gaderung
  2. inherited from gadering
  3. compounded as woolgathering — “wool + gathering”

Definitions

  1. The gathering of fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.

  2. Indulgence in idle fancies or daydreams.

    • [while fishing] Alone with my tin of bait and my wool-gatherings, I was in a world of my own, localized and satisfying as such world always are.

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Derived

woolgather

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for woolgathering. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA