cogware

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• Cogware — Cog ware , n. A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century. Halliwell. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• cogware — noun a) a coarse cloth of the fourteenth century The better quality was used for ordinary cloths, and the worst was made up into coarse cloth known as cogware and Kendal cloth, three quarters of a yard broad, and worth from 40d. to 5s. the piece …   Wiktionary

• Cogman — Cog man, n. A dealer in cogware or coarse cloth. [Obs.] Wright. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English