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My favorite one was when I started knitting. In the US what you knit with is called yarn. In the UK it seems that it's called wool. So I guess they have cotton wool, acrylic wool, silk wool, etc.
It got me wondering; how many words can you think of where an item's name is what it's made from? We drink from a glass. You press your clothes with an iron. A golf club can be either an iron or a wood. Your turn ...
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