[f. prec. sb.]
† 1. To make into cloth. Obs.
1599. Hakluyt, Voy., II. I. 161. Spaine nowe aboundeth with Wools, and the same are Clothed. Turkie hath Wools … and cloth is made … in diuers places. Ibid., II. 164. It were the greatest madnesse … to vent our wooll not clothed.
1641. W. Hakewill, Libertie of Subject, 93. Wool made into cloth … Wool not cloathed.
2. To cover or line with cloth.
1845. Stocqueler, Handbk. Brit. India (1854), 80. A Broad-wood or Zeitte,… clamped and fastened and clothed, to suit the climate of the tropics.
3. See also CLOTHE.
