stammel

noun

1. (historical, uncountable, usually)A woolen cloth (used in medieval times to make undergarments).

   “[…] booted he was after Saincte Benettes guise, and a blacke Stamell robe, with a lothlie monsterous hoode hanging backward […]”

   “Our great men Like to a Masse of clowds that now seeme like An Elephant, and straight wayes like an Oxe And then a Mouse, or like those changeable creatures That liue in the Burdello, now in Satten Tomorrow next in Stammell.”

   “[…] the lusty Lasses, and merry Good-wives, who were drest in all their Bravery, in their Stammel Petticoats, and their gray Cloath-Wastcoats, or white wrought Wastcoats, with black Woolstead, and green Aprons;”

2. (uncountable, usually)A bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.
3. (UK, dialectal, uncountable, usually)A large, clumsy horse.
4. (UK, dialectal, uncountable, usually)A vigorous girl.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of a bright red colour, like that of the stammel cloth.

   “The Violet’s purple, the sweet Rose’s stammell,”