[f. KEMP sb.2 + -Y1.] Of wool: Abounding in kemps or coarse hairs.
1805. Luccock, Nat. Wool, 242. Its wool was kempy, rough and thin.
1849. Rowlandson, in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. Eng., X. II. 427. The great quantity of kempy locks which compose the fleece of this breed.
1868. Daily News, 8 Dec., 6/1. Fleeces and general shape like a black-faced sheep, but rather kempy in the wool.
