dagswain
nounEtymology From dag (“a loose end”)?
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Obsolete, Usually A coarse woollen fabric made of daglocks, used for stuffing mattresses and furniture.
- Our fathers (yea, and ourselves also) have lien full oft upon straw pallets, covered only with a sheet under coverlets made of dagswain or hopharlots (I use their own terms), and a good round log under their heads instead of a bolster or pillow.1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC: