† Plymouth cloakn.

1629 L. Owen Speculum Iesuiticum (new ed.) 10 I would haue soone recall'd him, with a Plymouth cloake [margin Cudgell].

1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore iii. ii. 32 Shall I walke in a Plimouth Cloake, (that's to say) like a rogue, in my hose and doublet, and a crabtree cudgell in my hand?

1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts i. i. sig. B And I must tell you if you but aduance, Your plimworth cloke, you shall be soone instructed.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Devon 248 A Plimouth Cloak. That is a Cane or a Staffe... Many a man of good extraction, comming home from far Voiages, may chance to land here [i.e. at Plymouth], and being out of sorts, is unable for the present time and place to recruit himself with Cloaths. Here (if not friendly provided) they make the next Wood their Drapers shop, where a Staffe cut out, serves them for a covering.

1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. sig. M2 A plymouth cloak. A bludgeon, walking-stick, or staff. As a landsman prepares himself for a journey, by putting on his cloak, so a sailor equips himself by cutting a stick out of the first wood he comes to, the active service required of them on board, never suffering them to encumber themselves with cloaks.

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! vii Thou wilt please to lay down that Plymouth cloak of thine.