wadmal

American  

[wod-muhl] / ˈwɒd məl /

Or wadmaal,

noun

1. a bulky woolen fabric woven of coarse yarn and heavily napped, formerly much used in England and Scandinavia for the manufacture of durable winter garments.

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wadmal British  

/ ˈwɒdməl /

noun

1. a coarse thick woollen fabric, formerly woven esp in Orkney and Shetland, for outer garments

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Etymology

Origin of wadmal

1350–1400; Middle English < Old Norse vathmāl, equivalent to vāth cloth (cognate with Old English wæd; see weed ²) + māl measure ( see piecemeal)

Example Sentences

Leif gave her a gold finger-ring, a Greenland wadmal mantle, and a belt of walrus-tusk.

From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Olson, Julius E.

He hung some grey wadmal in front of the hole, and it looked from the road below as if one could see through.

From Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga by Unknown

Then Swanhild gave him faring-money and gifts of wadmal and gold rings, promising that he should have so much again when she came to Iceland.

From Eric Brighteyes by Haggard, Henry Rider

He built up the mouth of the cave, and hung grey wadmal before the entrance, so that none below could notice anything peculiar, or any one living there.

From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

May be it seems little to you," said Gisli; "but I would sooner part with thirty hundred ells of wadmal.

From Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga by Unknown