Definitions for Kersey

Kersey ker·sey

Spelling: [kur-zee]
IPA: /ˈkɜr zi/

Kersey is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in Kersey (eekrsy).

Definitions for Kersey

noun

  1. a heavy overcoating of wool or wool and cotton, similar to beaver and melton.
  2. a coarse twilled woolen cloth with a cotton warp, used especially for work clothes.
  3. a garment made of kersey.

Origin of Kersey

1400-50; late Middle English; perhaps after Kersey, in Suffolk, England

Examples for Kersey

The pay was small, often but a shilling a night, and occasionally a "coat of kersey."

She had a kersey coat, and covered with girdles of wampum from the loins upward.

kersey—A heavy, closely woven cloth with a smooth face and glossy finish.

kersey lake, the largest one of these explored by the party, empties into the Broadwater, a stream larger than Clarks Fork.

This outside adickey should of course be just enough larger than the kersey or blanket adickey to fit over it easily.

Over the kersey adickey another adickey of some smooth-surfaced, strong material, preferably moleskin, should be worn.

She had a kersey coat, covered with girdles of wampom from the loins upward.

"We has a bolt o' moleskin and a bolt o' kersey cloth," said Mrs. Twig.

Beaver—Similar to kersey, but with a longer nap, soft, thick nap inside.

The common burgher in his homespun breeches and kersey coat also took a part.

Word Value for Kersey
Scrable

13

Words with friends

12

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