Obs. Forms: 3–7 stamin, 4–5 stamyn, 5–6 stamyne, 6 -yng, 6–7 en, 7–8 stamine, 6–7 stammyne, 6–7 Sc. stem(m)yng, -ing, stemnyn, 7 Sc. steimming. See also ESTAMIN, ETAMINE, TAMIN. [Early ME. stamin (= Anglo-Latin staminum) a. OF. estamin (not in Godef. before 16th c.), parallel with estamine (12th c.; hence mod.F. étamine), app. a derivative (with suffix -in, -ine) of estame:—L. stāmina pl., warp threads (see STAMEN). The other Rom. langs. have in the same sense a cognate word of differing formation: Pr., Pg. estamenha, Sp. estameña, Cat. estamenya:—L. stāminea fem. of stāmineus adj., f. stāmin- STAMEN. Med.L. had stāminea, -eum, stāmen, a rough woollen undergarment worn by monks.]
1. a. A coarse cloth of worsted; in earliest use usually an undergarment made of this worn by ascetics. Cf. STAMMEL1 1.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 418. Stamin habbe hwose wule.
c. 1290. Beket, 2204, in S. Eng. Leg., I. 169. [Beket wore] Monekene Abite with Inne … boþe Covele and stamin.
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., 2360. She hadde I-wouyn In a stamyn large How she was brought from Athenys in a Barge. Ibid. (c. 1386), Pars. T., 1052. In werynge of heyres or of stamyn, or of haubergeons on hire naked flessh.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 307. Þey wereþ nevere lynnen clooþ, noþer stamyn [L. stamine], but þe heer next þe flesche. Ibid., 401. Þei schal were no … wollen þat is smal and softe as stamyn [L. subtile quale est staminum].
c. 1495. St. Mary of Oignies, I. xi. in Anglia, VIII. 147. She vsed not next hir flesche a lynnen smok, but an harde sakke, þat is callid in open tunge stamyne.
1483. Caxton, Golden Leg., 432. 1/2. He … ware for a shyrte a stamyn or streyner clothe.
b. In later use, a kind of woollen or worsted cloth, for outer garments, curtains, etc. for which Norfolk was formerly noted; = TAMIN, TAMMY.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 472/1. Stamyn, clothe, stamina.
1493. Will, in Sir J. Cullum, Hist. Hawsted (1784), 118. My payer of stamyns.
1495. Act 11 Hen. VII., c. 11 § 2. Ther shuld no man take upon hym to shere Worstedes, called ten yerdes Stamyns ne any other Worstedes.
1496–7. Act 12 Hen. VII., c. 1. The due occupacion of makyng of Worstedys Sayes and Stamyns.
1533–4. Act 25 Hen. VIII., c. 5 § 2. Any worstedes stamens or sayes.
1535. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., VI. 246. Ane pair of hois, vi quarteris quhite steming.
1540. in Archæologia, XLVI. 216. For stamyn & thred & gerdels v d. ob.
1579. Extracts Burgh Rec. Edin. (1872), IV. 117. Thre elnes of blak inglis stemyng to be thair hois.
1585. T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., II. xxi. 58 b. Hee hath well soaped and rubbed your bodie … wyth a purse of Stammin, or Chamblet.
1594. Blundevil, Exerc., V. iv. (1636), 539. The Merchandixes sent from England … are these, broad Clothes, Carsyes, Stamines.
1603. Reg. Privy Council Scot., 520. Fusteanis, stemingis, grogranis and other kynde of stuffe.
1621. Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1816), IV. 669/2. All Cloath stemming stuffes and Stokkingis maid in þr said burgh.
1657. Howell, Londinop., 60. All Forreins bringing Woolsteads, Sayes, Stamins, [etc.].
1708. Lond. Gaz., No. 4482/4. For Sale…,… 50 Pieces of Norwich Crapes … 11 Pieces of Stamines.
1775. Ash, Stamen, Stamin (obsolete) [wrongly explained].
[1818. in Todd; and in mod. Dicts.]
attrib. 1525. Dk. Norfolk, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. III. I. 379. The living of theim of the Citie [of Norwich] was moste by worsted and stamen making.
1553. Richmond Wills (Surtees), 77. My blew stamyng jacket.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xxviii. 69. My Stemming Sark & Rokket was laid doun.
1574. Reg. Privy Council Scot., II. 374. Ane hors laid of Inglis steming clayth.
1580. Aberdeen Reg. (1848), II. 36. Thrie pair of steming breikis, ane blak, ane gray, ane browne.
1605. Chapman, etc., Eastward Hoe, I. A 4. Your Stamen peticoate with two guardes.
1624. in Archæologia, XLVIII. 144. A whole peece of 15 yardes and a halfe of stamin Carsey for a bed.
1664. in Maitl. Club Misc. (1840), II. 509. 2 steming petticoatis.
2. Used to render F. étamine, a strainer.
1725. Bradley’s Fam. Dict., s.v. Blanc-manger, You must pour it into a Stamine or thick Linnen-cloth.
