>If that's so, then what's "single-ply wool"? Why isn't it 
>"single-strand"?

It is correctly called 'singles' , not ply or anything else.  But of course
most people don't know this so call it one play as they would two ply, three
ply etc.   When I learned to spin thirty years ago, I was taught that after
the first spinning, two, three or more threads could be plied, reversing the
direction of the wheel.  Oh what trouble I had!

Liz Pass
(in Poole, Dorset)

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