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† soutage Obs.
Also 6 sowltwyche, soultwhiche, -witch, 7 -wich; 7 soultage, sowtage, -ege.
[Of obscure origin.]
Coarse cloth or canvas used esp. for packing or as a material for bags.
α1532–3in E. Law Hampton Crt. Palace (1885) 351 Paid..for 2 pecys of sowltwyche, every pece conteynyng 33 ellys. 1545Rates of Custom House c iiij b, Soult-whiche the hundreth elles,..xxx. s. 1657Acts of Interregn. (1911) II. 1215 Linnen Cloth called..Soultwich, the hundred Els.
β1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 136 Some close them vp drie in a hogshed or fat, yet canuas or soutage is better than that. 1591Acts Privy Council (N.S.) XXII. 169 Duche canvas or counterfaicte borrace, harfordes, soutage or sowtwell and guttings are not sold to make sailes for ships. c1611Chapman Iliad xiv. Comm., That which they call our fustian, their plain writing being stuff nothing so substantial but such gross sowtege, or hairpatch, as every goose may eat oats through. 1631Mabbe Celestina Ep. Ded. (1894) 5, I see no reason why they should..loath silke, because it is lapt in soultage. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. 276 Soutage, course Cloath, or Bagging for Hops, or such like.
attrib.1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 215 She hath..silken words, but sowtage deeds. |