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A rough thick wollen cloth (originally made in Flushing/Vlissingen). Wine from the higher lands 30-40 miles east of Bordeaux. A large cask or barrel, especially one containing from 50 to 112
imperial gallons; (about 238 to 530 litres). A former English unit of length for cloth equal to 45 inches (about 1.14 metres).
Old english eln . (1) Any of a breed of fine-wooled white sheep producing a heavy fleece
of exceptional quality.
(2) A soft wool or wool and cotton fabric resembling cashmere.
(3) A fine woodland cotton yarn. A heavy woolen double-breasted jacket worn chiefly by sailors. (by folk etymology
from Dutch pijjekker, from pij, a kind of cloth + jekker, "jacket").
(a)A large cask used especially for wine and oil.
(b)Any of various units of liquid capacity based on the size of a pipe, especially,
a unit capacity equal to 2 hogsheads (about 477 litres). A thick twilled wollen cloth, or the French version: "Ratine" étoffe de laine croisée dont le poil est tiré au dehors et frisé. "Eau-de-vie" or grain brandy produced in Schiedam, Holland. The amount that a container (as a cask) lacks of being full. (Middle French eullage;"act of filling a cask", from eullier "to fill a cask". Old measure of capacity, one-third of pipe, cask or vessel holding this quantity. | |
