Glossary of Terms
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| Fribs |
Greasy, sweat pieces of wool found on the outer edge of the fleece.
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| Full mouth |
Sheep over four years of age.
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| Gare |
Long hair like fibres.
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| Gestation |
Period of pregnancy, for sheep it is approx. 150 days.
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| Gilling |
Gilling is the blending together of card slivers with the direction of feed alternated to make a final sliver suitable for spinning. In worsted processing, three gilling operations are usually carried out prior to combing and two after combing.
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| Grab Sampling |
A method of taking a representative samples from wool bales. A jaw is driven by a machine into the wool bale and when withdrawn brings out a sample of fibres. Grab samples can be used to measure length and strength.
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| Grade |
The classification system used to describe raw wool.
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| Grease |
A fatty, pale yellow wax that coats the raw wool fibre and yields lanolin.
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| Greasy wool |
Wool as it is shorn from the sheep, before any processing.
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| Gun shearer |
A shearer who shears more the 200 sheep per day.
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| Handle |
The quality of fabric, yarn or fibre assessed by the reaction obtained from the sense of touch. Comprising the judgment of roughness, smoothness, harshness, pliability, thickness, softness, etc.
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| Handpiece |
Mechanical instrument used for the removal of wool from a sheep.
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| Handspun |
Yarns which are spun by hand using a spinning wheel or electric spinner.
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| Hauteur (H, mm) | Hauteur is mean fibre length in a top. Hauteur is usually regarded as a numerical average (i.e.. Assumes no relationship between fibre length and diameter), but is actually a length-biased distribution. The variation in the length is expressed as CVH%. |
| Hogget |
Young sheep approx. 12-18 months of age. In Australia, hogget wool comes from young sheep that are usually shorn as lambs, with the first fleece then known as hogget wool.
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