† ˈhaberjet, hauberget Obs.
Also 6 hauberject, 8 haberject, 9 halberject, -git.
[In med.L. haubergetum, a word of obscure origin, app. related to hauberk and habergeon.]
A kind of cloth named in Magna Carta, and in some ancient documents.
| [1216 Magna Carta 1 Hen. III §23 Sit..una latitudo pannorum tinctorum & Russettorum & Haubergetorum, scilicet due Ulne infra listas.] 1502 tr. Great Charter in Arnolde Chron. (1811) 219 And one largenes dyed clothes and of russetis and of hauberiectis, that is to sey two ellis betwyxt the listis. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Haberjects, or Haubergets, a kind of Cloth mention'd in Magna Charta, and other Records. 1865 Kingsley Herew. II. i. 10 Clothing of..grising or halbergit and lambs' skins. 1861 Riley Liber Albus Gloss. s.v. Hapertas, In Mag. Rot. 14 John, mention is made of 3043 ells de halbergo albo ‘of white halberject’ for the king's use. |