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Definition of Melton
1. n. A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.
Definition of Melton
1. Noun. A tough, short napped material used for making overcoats. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Melton
1. a heavy woolen fabric [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melton
Literary usage of Melton
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"For some portion of the time covered by the lease melton himself appears to have
been in the state of Florida, and the defendants claimed that his son, ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1910)
"113 BECK, J. The Buena Vista Loan and Savings Bank obtained, in the county court
of Marion county, a judgment against Eli E. melton, Mathew melton, ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"'THE melton BREAKFAST' (10 S. viii 269).—This picture was No. ... 474 was entitled '
The melton Hunt : Going to Draw the Ram's Head Cover,' and was lent by ..."
4. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1890)
"melton Mowbray is also famous 1'or its pork-pies and .Stilton cheese. ...
Beyond melton Mowbray the line goes on to Peterborough (see p. 362). ..."
5. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1875)
"It was this fall melton had been sketching, and as I now looked over his shoulder
... In the foreground, too, melton was just putting in, by a few masterly ..."
6. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain by Sir Bernard Burke (1863)
"1802, and was ». by his only surviving grandson, RICHARD-FOUNTAYNE WILSON, Esq.
of melton, 6. to June, 1783, MP for Yorkshire, and its high sheriff 1807, ..."
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