1 gen 1621 anni - femble
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The usual east-Yorkshire spelling of ‘fimble’, recorded from 1484 (OED). It is literally ‘female hemp’ and the word applied to both the male plant and the fibre from it. 1422 <i>Pro lxiij petris canobi de femell emptis apud Hull pro 1 novo cabill faciendo</i>, York (SS35/48); 1554 <i>xiiij payre of femble shetes</i>, Brantingham (Kaner49); 1621 <i>one femble codwaire</i>, South Cave (Kaner298). See hesp (1).
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