dagswain

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noun

A coarse woollen fabric made of daglocks, used for stuffing mattresses and furniture.

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Meanings

noundagswain (usually uncountable, plural dagswains)

plural dagswains

  1. obsoleteuncountableusuallyA coarse woollen fabric made of daglocks, used for stuffing mattresses and furniture.

    Our fathers (yea, and ourselves also) have lien full oft upon straw pallets, covered only with a sheet under coverlets made of dagswain or hopharlots (I use their own terms), and a good round log under their heads instead of a bolster or pillow.

    1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC

Origin

From dag (“a loose end”)?

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Chicago

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