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Webster 1913 Edition


Stammel

Stam′mel

(stăm′mĕl)
,
Noun.
A large, clumsy horse.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.

Stam′mel

,
Noun.
[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
.]
1.
A kind of woolen cloth formerly in use. It seems to have been often of a red color.
[Obs.]
2.
A red dye, used in England in the 15th and 16th centuries.
B. Jonson.

Stam′mel

,
Adj.
Of the color of stammel; having a red color, thought inferior to scarlet.

Webster 1828 Edition


Stammel

STAMMEL

,
Noun.
1.
A species of red color.
2.
A kind of woolen cloth. [See Stamin.]

Definition 2024


stammel

stammel

English

Noun

stammel (usually uncountable, plural stammels)

  1. A woolen cloth used in medieval times to make undergarments.
  2. A bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.
    stammel colour:    
  3. A large, clumsy horse.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)

Adjective

stammel (not comparable)

  1. Of a bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.

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German

Verb

stammel

  1. First-person singular present of stammeln.
  2. Imperative singular of stammeln.