stammel

Old French estamel

stammel (usually uncountable, plural stammels)

1. (historical) A woolen cloth (used in medieval times to make undergarments).
   • 1564, William Bullein, A Dialogue Bothe Pleasaunte and Pietifull‎^[3], London, page 11:

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

   • 1606, George Chapman, Monsieur D’Olive‎^[4], London: William Holmes, act II, scene 1:

     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.

   • 1671, Margaret Cavendish, “The Tale of a Traveller”, in Natures Picture Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life‎^[5], London, page 525:

     […] 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;

2. A bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.

   stammel:  

3. (UK, dialect) A large, clumsy horse.^[1]
4. (UK, dialect) A vigorous girl.^[2]

stammel (not comparable)

1. Of a bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.
   • 1611, “The Third Daie of the First Week”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas his Deuine Weekes‎^[6], London:

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

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stammel

1. inflection of stammeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative