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Definition of "wool-gathering" []

  • Alternative spelling of woolgathering. (noun)

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Use "wool-gathering" in a sentence
  • "“Come, Doctor, I beg your pardon, but your wits are fairly gone a wool-gathering; it was I invited you to dinner, up at the inn yonder, and not you me.”"
  • "Skipping thus lightly over a matter of such consequence, the thoughts of the hare-brained boy went a wool-gathering after more agreeable topics."
  • "Tibullus, stulti praetereunt dies, their wits are a wool-gathering."