English Explanatory Dictionary

wadmal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Thick coarse heavily napped wool mostly (formerly) used in Scandinavia and parts of Britain in winter clothing for the poor, similar to melton.

Word forms

wadmal wadmals wadmaal wadmeal wadmel wadmell wadmol wadmoll

Etymology

From Middle English wadmal, wadmol, from Old Norse váðmál (“woolen stuff”), from váð (“cloth”) + mál (“measure”). Cognate to Danish vadmel, Swedish vadmal, Norwegian Nynorsk vadmål and Icelandic vaðmál. Compare wad (“a small mass”) and woodmeil.

Related words

wad weed
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