Meaning of stammel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A woolen cloth (used in medieval times to make undergarments).
   historical, uncountable, usually
2. A bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.
   uncountable, usually
3. A large, clumsy horse.
   UK, dialectal, uncountable, usually
4. A vigorous girl.
   UK, dialectal, uncountable, usually

Examples

“[…] booted he was after Saincte Benettes guise, and a blacke Stamell robe, with a lothlie monsterous hoode hanging backward […]”

“Our great men Like to a Masse of clowds that now seeme like An Elephant, and straight wayes like an Oxe And then a Mouse, or like those changeable creatures That liue in the Burdello, now in Satten Tomorrow next in Stammell.”

“[…] the lusty Lasses, and merry Good-wives, who were drest in all their Bravery, in their Stammel Petticoats, and their gray Cloath-Wastcoats, or white wrought Wastcoats, with black Woolstead, and green Aprons;”

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