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mortling

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mort⋅ling

  [mawrt-ling]
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–noun British.
wool obtained from dead sheep.
Origin:
1400–50; earlier morling, late ME; prob. by suffix substitution from mor(t)kin dead animal < AF mortekine, for OF mortecine (≪ L morticīnus (of an animal) having died naturally) with final conformed to ME -kin -kin; see -ling 1
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