† cammes Obs.
Also cames, camwysse.
Apparently a corrupt form of canvas; ‘a kind of gauze for samplers’ (Jamieson).
| 1540 Sc. Ld. Treas. Acc. in Pitcairn Crim. Trials I. 301 For cammes to stuff the orpheis of þe samin. 1541 Ibid. 309 For xij boltis of cammes, to be salis. 1555 Ch. Acc. Leverton, Linc. in Archæol. XLI. 360 For iiij yardes of camwysse for the hye awlter. 1578 Inventories 215 (Jam.) A lang pece of cammes, sewit with the armes of Scotland. |