shetland wool

1. 1.

   a wool obtained from sheep of the Shetland islands

   Broaderwool

Questions about shetland wool

What does shetland wool mean?

shetland wool means "a wool obtained from sheep of the Shetland islands".

Is shetland wool a common word?

shetland wool is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.