Searchable Lemmata: estamine (AF), stamenea (L), stamin (ME), stamin (MdE).
Alternate Forms: eçtaim, eçtaime, esteim, esteime, estem, esteym, staim, stame, stan, staym, steim.
1a(n.)
Manufacture;
wool cloth, linsey-woolsey or similar; associated with worsted cloth ('worsteades') by the end of the fifteenth century.(ante 1225 - post 1450)
1. [7.401] ... Þei schal were no manere furres, ne lynnen cloþ, ne wollen þat is smal and softe as stamyn [L staminum], neiþer breches, but in þe wey ... [7.403] ... Þey [monks] slepeþ i-cloþed and i-gerd [L cincti]
Historic.
[MED Trev.Higd. ((StJ-C H.1) 7.401-403) ante 1387]
2. With a penne coude she nat wryte; But letters can she weve to and fro, So that, by that the yer was al ago, She hadde ywoven [vr. woued] in a stamyn [vr. a stames] large How she was brought from Athenes in a barge
Biblical/Hagiographic, Poetic.
[MED Chaucer LGW ((Benson-Robinson) 2358-2360) circa 1430]
3. To arme a man. ffirste ye muste sette on Sabatones and tye hem up on the shoo with smale poyntis ... And then griffus & then quisses ... And þen rerebras, And then glovys [vr. cloovis]
He schal have ... a payr' hosyn of stamyn sengill and a peyre of shorte bulwerkis of thynne blanket to put aboute his kneys for chawfynge of his lighernes. ... A longe swerde ... Also a kerchif to hele the viser of his basinet ... His basinet pynnid up on two greet staplis before the breste, with a dowbill bokill behynde up on the bak for to make the basinet sitte juste ... Thre coordis muste be faste sowid un to the hele of the shoo and fyne [read: fyue] cordis in the mydill of the soole ... and that ther be betwene the frettis of the heele and the frettis of the myddill of the shoo the space of thre fyngris.
Legal.
[MED Arms Chivalry (Mrg M 775) (43-44) ante 1486]
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
2(n.)
Garment;
wool shirt or other under-garment, presumably made from the material in sense 1.(ante 1170 - post 1450)
2. pellicis: furreys ... talentum: besant ... bracteolas: braceroles ... stamineas gallice: stamin ... teristra: geinse a dam
Gloss.
[AND TLL (ii 146) ante 1300]
3. [214/26] ... Nest flesch ne schal nan werien linnene clað bute hit beo of hearde & of greate heorden ... [214/27] ... Nest flesch ne schal nan werien linnene clað bute hit beo of hearde & of greate heorden; Stamin habbe hwa se wule, hwa se wule beo buten
[MED Ancr. ((Corp-C 402) 214/26-27) circa 1230]
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Back, Chest, Shoulder(s).
3(n.)
Decoration;
L forago, a band, selvage or edge on a piece of cloth (and cf. stamen).1. [466] ... Sowtare, or cordewaner: Sutor, alutarius ... Sowtarys lest: Formula, formella, calopodium ... [469] ... Sperel, or closel yn schetynge: Firmaculum ... [470] ... Spole, or scytyl, webstarys instrument: Spolia, panulea ... [473] ... Steynyn, or stenyyn [Win: stenyine], as clothe þat lesythe hys colowre ... [474] ... Stemyne, or stodul, or stothe yn a webbyshonde [Win: webbys eend]: Forago ... [476] ... Stothe [KC: stode], of a clothe: Forago ... [478] ... Straple [Win: Strapyl; KC: strappyl] of a breche: Femorale, feminale.
Gloss.
[MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 466-478) 1440]
Sex: N/A Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Speculative, British Latin staminum, apparently from Old French or AF estamin(e, apparently derived from estame, from Latin stamina ('warp threads' in the plural; cf. stamen).
cf. Older Scots stemming, not attested in the medieval period.
WF:
Etym Cog: stamen (AF), stamin (ME), ystof (W).
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