linsey

See also: Linsey

English

Noun

linsey (countable and uncountable, plural linseys)

1. A cloth made of linen and wool.
   • 1852, J. D. B. De Bow, The Industrial Resources of the Southern and Western States:

     My rule is to give for winter a linsey suit, one shirt of best towelling, one hat, one pair of shoes, a good blanket, costing $2 to $2 50, every other year […]

2. A kind of clayey rock.

Derived terms

• linsey-woolsey

Anagrams

• Insley, Nisley, lysine, silyne