stammel

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Noun

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stam=mel

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun stammel has 1 sense

stammel(n = noun.artifact) - a coarse woolen cloth formerly used for undergarments and usually dyed bright red;

CIDE DICTIONARY

stammel, n.

A large, clumsy horse. Wright. [1913 Webster]

stammel, n. [OF. estamel; cf. OF. estamet a coarse woolen cloth, LL. stameta a kind of cloth, the same as staminea, and OF. estame a woolen stuff. See Stamin.].

A kind of woolen cloth formerly in use. It seems to have been often of a red color. [1913 Webster]
A red dye, used in England in the 15th and 16th centuries. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

stammel, a.

Of the color of stammel; having a red color, thought inferior to scarlet. [1913 Webster]