wadmal
Americannoun
noun
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
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We see them meeting to discuss laws and frontiers, and feasting late when business is done, and chaffering for knives with ivory handles, for arrows, and saddles, and wadmal, in the booths of the citizens.
From Oxford by Andrew Lang
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 S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
He didn't care about the sodden wadmal breeks and tunic that hung around his skin.
From The Valor of Cappen Varra by Poul William Anderson
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
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 Julius E. Olson
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