frib
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]frib (plural fribs)
- A piece of inferior wool from the outer part of the fleece.
- 1809, A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine, John Lawrence, page 385:
- The wool, producing nearly five-sixths of prime, and only one-fourteenth of fribs, is a proof that it had suffered no degeneration […]
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