slang. Obs. [In the first quot. perh. a use of prec. (with sense ‘wearer of a stammel petticoat’); but cf. STRAMMEL.] (See quots.)

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1597.  Deloney, Gentle Craft, II. Wks. (1912), 150. Out vpon her foule stammell (quoth she) he that takes her to his wife shall be sure of flesh enough.

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a. 1700.  B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Stammel, a brawny, lusty, strapping Wench.

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1706.  Phillips (ed. Kersey), Stammel or Stammel-Jade, a great flouncing Mare; an over-grown bouncing Wench.

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1735.  Dyche & Pardon, Dict., Stammel or Strammel, a large flouncing Mare, or overgrown robust Wench.

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