femble
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "... with nettles and other rubbish, sowed hemp on six acres three roods; he got two last and one half of seed , without taking the advantage of picking the femble hemp; after threshing he stacked it, and in the spring watered and dressed it."
- "two linen table clothes, one femble tablecloth, two linen towels, […]"
- "The next year 65 stone of "femble" hemp1 were bought" […] ¹ There were three buyers of cloth and one of tow in 1622. ² "Femble" hemp was the term applied to the fibre as prepared for use. (Vide Oxf. Dict.)"
- "Sometimes also 'femble' sheets were listed. Often in the chests in which the bed linen was kept were towels, napkins, table-cloths and carpets (here a table and not a floor covering). Robert More (d. 1559) added variety by having a salting trough in his parlour, presumably kept under the bed, […]"
- "John Parish of Beltoft, who died in 1590, left linen cloth, femble, and harden cloth worth £3 5s. 4d., femble yarn and harden yarn worth ten shillings, heckled line and femble worth two shillings and sixpence, braked hemp worth six shillings and ..."