haircloth

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HA'IRCLOTH, noun Stuff or cloth made of hair, or in part with hair. In military affairs, pieces of this cloth are used for covering the powder in wagons, or on batteries, or for covering charged bombs, etc.
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