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wildbore local.
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A stout and closely woven unglazed tammy.
1784Salem Gaz. in Alice M. Earle Costume Colonial Times (1894) 257 Marone Ribb'd Wildbores. 1788Massachusetts Spy 23 Oct. 3/4 Wildbore Camblets. 1798Times 28 June 4/4 Durants, Callimancoes, Wildbores, &c. 1852in A. Holroyd Collect. Bradf. (1873) 179 About 1813, Messrs. James Akroyd and Son, of Halifax,..produced the articles known by the names of wildbores and plainbacks, from which sprung the single-twilled merinos. 1857J. James Worsted Manuf. 374 A dobby piece was..nothing more than a figured wildbore. Ibid. 627 About the year 1783, their use [sc. Leeds camblets]..began to decline, and the stuff makers at Leeds commenced making wildbores. 1876Cudworth Round about Bradford 330 The worsted business,..the principal make being shalloons and wildbores. |