cogwares

Noun

cogware (usually uncountable, plural cogwares)

1. (historical, usually) A coarse cloth of the 14th century.
   • The better quality was used for ordinary cloths, and the worst was made up into coarse cloth known as cogware and Kendal cloth, three quarters of a yard broad, and worth from 40d. to 5s. the piece. The term cogware seems to have sprung from its being sold to cogmen, the crews of the ships called...1964, L.F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages, page 207
2. (historical, usually) A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the 16th century.