Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of carpet; a rough or coarse covering for a bed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool.

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  • noun A coarse woollen fabric made of daglocks.

Etymologies

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From dag a loose end?

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Examples

  • The second is the great (although not general) amendment of lodging; for, said they, our fathers, yea and we ourselves also, have lain full oft upon straw pallets, on rough mats covered only with a sheet, under coverlets made of dagswain or hopharlots (I use their own terms), and a good round log under their heads instead of a bolster or pillow.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • The second is the great (although not general) amendment of lodging; for, said they, our fathers, yea and we ourselves also, have lain full oft upon straw pallets, on rough mats covered only with a sheet, under coverlets made of dagswain or hopharlots (I use their own terms), and a good round log under their heads instead of a bolster or pillow.

    Of the Manner of Building and Furniture of Our Houses. Chapter VIII. [1577, Book II., Chapter 10; 1587, Book II., Chapter 12 1909

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