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Tammy   Listen
noun
Tammy  n.  (pl. tammies)  
1.
A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
2.
A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis.





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"Tammy" Quotes from Famous Books



... old Watling Street, straggles for a mile over a sluggish burn to the "Pury end." One son, Thomas, had enlisted and was in Canada. Edmund Carey, the second, set up the loom on which he wove the woollen cloth known as "tammy," in a two-storied cottage. There his eldest child, WILLIAM, was born, and lived for six years till his father was appointed schoolmaster, when the family removed to the free schoolhouse. The cottage ...
— The Life of William Carey • George Smith


Words linked to "Tammy" :   material, fabric, tam, tam-o'-shanter, cap, Tammy Wynetter Pugh


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