† CarpmealCarptmealn.
Obsolete.
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1610 Act 7 Jas. I c. 16 §2 All Cogware, Kendalles, course Cottons, and Carptmeales..made within the said Counties of Cumberland and Westmerland, or within the said Townes and Parishes of Carptmeale, Hawkeshead, and Broughton, in the said Countie of Lancaster.
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Carpemeals, a course kind of our northern cloth.
1704 Dict. Rusticum Carpmeals, a coarse kind of Cloth, made in the North of England, and formerly mentioned. I know not whether the Name continues still.
1799 J. Strutt Compl. View Dress & Habits People of Eng. II. 195.
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