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stammel

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English

Etymology

Old French estamel

Noun

stammel (usually uncountable, plural stammels)

(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;
A bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.
stammel:
(UK, dialect) A large, clumsy horse.^[1]
(UK, dialect) A vigorous girl.^[2]

Adjective

stammel (not comparable)

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,

See also

References

^ Thomas Wright, Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1857, Volume 2, p. 905: “STAMMEL, […] A great clumsy horse.”^[1]
^ B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, London: W. Hawes et al., 1699: “Stammel, a brawny, lusty, strapping Wench.”^[2]

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

stammel

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

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