short clothn.
A kind of cotton cloth or calico manufactured in short pieces. Also a length or piece of such cloth.
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1545 Rates Custome House sig. diij One long cloth makyth one shorte cloth and .vii. yardes.
1641 W. Hakewill Libertie of Subj. 93 The custom upon a short cloth was fourteene-pence, and..a sack of Wool did commonly make foure short clothes.
c1744 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea (1753) II. xii. 62 Cloth exported to Turkey the five preceeding years..short cloths.
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