stammel

plural stammels

1. historicaluncountableusuallyA woolen cloth (used in medieval times to make undergarments).

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

   1564, William Bullein, A Dialogue Bothe Pleasaunte and Pietifull, London, page 11

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   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.

   1606, George Chapman, Monsieur D’Olive, London: William Holmes, act II, scene 1

   […] 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;

   1671, Margaret Cavendish, “The Tale of a Traveller”, in Natures Picture Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life, London, page 525

2. uncountableusuallyA bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.
3. UKdialectaluncountableusuallyA large, clumsy horse.
4. UKdialectaluncountableusuallyA vigorous girl.

1. not comparableOf a bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.

   The Violet’s purple, the sweet Rose’s stammell,

   1611, “The Third Daie of the First Week”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas his Deuine Weekes, London