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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel.

va[GREEK]māl

a woollen stuff, Dan

vadmel

. Cf.

a small mass, and

A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes.

[Spelled also

wadmal

wadmeal

wadmoll

wadmel

, etc.]

Beck (Draper’s Dict.). Sir W. Scott.

wadmol ‎(uncountable)

A rough woolen fabric once used in Scandinavia and parts of northern Britain to make warm or protective clothing
- 2004, C. J. Sansom, Dark Fire, Penguin Books 2006, p.30:
  Huddled in one corner was a fat old woman in a stained wadmol dress, fast asleep.