sarplar

English

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Etymology

Compare Latin sarplare. See sarplier.

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Particularly: “Chambers 1908 says: O. Fr. serpilliere, Low L. serapellinus, L. xerampelinæ (vestes), of the colour of dead vine-leaves, dark-red (clothes), Gr. xērampelinos, xēros, dry, ampelinos, ampelos, a vine.”

Noun

sarplar (plural sarplars)

(UK, obsolete) A large bale or package of wool, containing eighty tods, or 2,240 pounds, in weight.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sarplar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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