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woollen

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Searchable Lemmata: wyllen (OE), wollen (ME), wolnen (ME), woollen (MdE).
Alternate Forms: willene, wolland, wollen, wollene, wollein, wollin, wollon, wollun, woln, wolne, woollen, woullen, wullen, wullin, wylnenan.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(adj.) Raw Material; made of wool (as opposed to some other fibre, such as linen). As a modern technical term, refers to yarn made from carded wool fibres (as opposed to combed, worsted fibres); see glossary in Crowfoot, E., F. PRitchard and K Staniland (2000). There are a LOT of instances in PROME, particularly 14th cent.(circa 1000 still in current use)
1. lanea : wyllene [DOE AldV 13.1 (Nap) (0455 (455))]
2. lanea stamina : wyllene wearþ : stamen dictum quia rectum stat [DOE AldV 1 (Goossens) (0540 (540))]
3. Linostema : linen wearp ł wyllen ab [DOE AntGl 4 (Kindschi) (0779 (779))]
4. Þis deah wið fotece, genim elenan moran & eferþrotan moran & doccan moran, wyll swiðe well on buteran, dreahna ut þurh wyllene clað, læt colian, æfter smyre syþþan þæt geswel, him bið sona sel. [DOE Med 3 (Grattan-Singer) (0186 (179.1))]
5. Wið ceocadle nim þone hweorfan þe wif mid spinnað, bind on his sweoran mid wyllenan þræde & swile innan mid hate gate meolce. [DOE Lch II (3) (0040 (6.1.1))]
6. Ne æt he næfre flæsc ne he win ne dranc ne he wyllenra hrægla breac, ac linenra ealra, ne he bæþes gymde ne he his loccas mid scearum wanode ne his beard mid seaxe scear. Biblical/Hagiographic. [DOE Mart 5 (Kotzor) (0608 (Ju 22,A.8))]
7. Se healfa dæl þæra preosta þe yldran beon nimon ælce geare niwe cæppan and wyllene reaf niwe; and þa ealdan reaf þe hi þæs ærran geares namon, agifon hi æfre þonne hi niwe nimon. [DOE ChrodR 1 (0386 (39.1)) ante 1000]
8. Sona on fruman, þæs ðe he þæt ancersetl gesæt, þa þohte he, þæt he nawðer þara ne wyllenes hrægles ne linenes brucan wolde, ac on fellenum gegyrlan þæt he wolde ealle dagas his lifes alifigean; and he hit swa forð gelæste. [DOE LS 10 (Guth) (0003 (4.16)) circa 875/925]
9. Marchauntis ... 3af wille for his writyng wollene [vrr. wolleyn, wullen, willene] cloþis Poetic, Vision. (work: a1376) [MED PPl.A(1) ((Trin-C R.3.14) 8.43) circa 1400]
10. It is ordeyned ... that non of the same toun take in kepyng of poore webberes, ne off spynneres, ne of threed makeres, ne of poure tailours ... of tayleresses, ne off poure lavenderes ... clothes maade ... Ne flax, ne hemp, ne wollen threed, ne lynen threed, ne non other maner of thyng suspesious Legal. [MED Ipswich Domesday(2) ((Add 25011) 133) circa 1436]
11. Þai broght cloþes to hem þo, Wollen & lynnen boþe two Biblical/Hagiographic, Poetic. (dating uncertain) [MED MLChrist ((Add 39996) 5115) ante 1450]
12. [a] ... Within viii dayes after the fest of All Halowes ... the Steward of youre honorable Houshold, the chief Baron of youre Eschequer, for the tyme beyng, and other at youre pleasure, or iii of theym ... be named to be Keper or Kepers of the Ulnage within the same Shire, Cite, or Borough, havyng ... power therby to seale the seid Clothes and halve Clothes. [b] ... Wollen Cloth fulled in Milles called Gygmylles and Toune Milles Legal. [MED RParl. (5.502a-b) 1463/1464]
ME, MdE, OE; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, OE wyllen (adj.).
WF:
Etym Cog: wullin, woolen.
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