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† ˈhandywarp Obs.
Also handwarp.
[f. handy a. 1 + warp n.]
A kind of cloth made in the 16th c., of which app. the warp was prepared in some particular way.
1552Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI, c. 6 §1 All and everie colored Clothe or Clothes..of lyke sortes commonlye called Handy⁓warpes. Ibid., All Whites..made in the saide Shires or elswhere as Coxsall Whites Glaynesfordes and other beinge Handwarpes. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. vi. (1593) 127 Or on the rocke doth spinne the hand-warpe woofe Or else imbroidereth. 1606–7Act 4 Jas. I, c. 2 §1 Every White Cloth..of like makinge commonlye called Handywarpes. |