stammel

English

Etymology

Old French estamel

Noun

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, 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, 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, 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]

Adjective

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, London:

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

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

References

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

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Verb

stammel

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