A matted lock of wool. 1615, N.E.D.
1857. The farmer never takes a sheep into the water to wash him until the taglocks are first cut off, because they have taglocks so quickly again, they besmear the wool.—H. C. Kimball, at the Bowery, Salt Lake City, Aug. 23: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ v. 176.
