Definition of "wool-growing" [wool-growing]

• Producing sheep and wool: especially noting a tract of country.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The disproportion between the attention which has been given to viticulture and that which has been bestowed upon wool-growing is well brought out in the following table: —"
• "Yet, although the vine was thus early started in Australia, it has since made but little progress, relatively speaking, in comparison with the great industry of wool-growing, and it will be appropriate to make this reference to the grape and the fleece conjointly, for the same name — that of John Macarthur — is intimately associated with both."
• "It is not often that one man has the opportunity of establishing two such great industries as wine-making and wool-growing."