A coarse woollen cloth of a reddish-brown or subdued colour, formerly used for clothing esp. by country people and the poor; a kind or make of this…

A coarse kind of cloth, apparently resembling frieze, made of the most inferior wool.

A kind of coarse, heavily fulled union cloth (union, n.2 14 compounds 1b) having the warp of hemp and the weft of poor quality carding wool.

a kind of cloth.

A kind of coarse woollen cloth used for garments, linings, etc.; a (piece of) cloth of this kind. Now historical.

A coarse woollen narrow cloth produced in south-west England in the 17th cent. See also pinned, adj.3

A kind of coarse woollen fabric formerly manufactured in the west of England; akin to the stuffs called tammies. (Not the same as corduroy.)

A coarse woollen cloth having a thick nap or frieze; a piece of such fabric (frequently in plural).

a kind of coarse twilled cloth with a worsted warp and a woollen weft.

= sense A. 1.

A kind of rough and thick woollen cloth, so called from the place where it was first manufactured.

(a) Army slang coarse woollen cloth or yarn; (b) Australian and New Zealand colloquial = bull, n.4 3; see also quot. 1898.