"femble" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "(“(male, early-ripening) hemp”) (sometimes said, variously, to be specifically either coarse-fibred hemp or hemp prepared for use)",
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          "ref": "1804, Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture, The Repertory of arts and manufactures [afterw.] arts, manufactures and agriculture, page 77",
          "text": "... with nettles and other rubbish, sowed hemp on six acres three roods; he got two last and one half of seed , without taking the advantage of picking the femble hemp; after threshing he stacked it, and in the spring watered and dressed it.",
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        {
          "ref": "1859, Surtees Society, York Minster, James Raine, Publications of the Surtees Society, page 162",
          "text": "two linen table clothes, one femble tablecloth, two linen towels, […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, The Treatment of Poverty in Cambridgeshire 1597-1834, CUP Archive, page 35",
          "text": "The next year 65 stone of \"femble\" hemp1 were bought\" […]\n¹ There were three buyers of cloth and one of tow in 1622.\n² \"Femble\" hemp was the term applied to the fibre as prepared for use. (Vide Oxf. Dict.)"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, The Lincolnshire Historian",
          "text": "Sometimes also 'femble' sheets were listed. Often in the chests in which the bed linen was kept were towels, napkins, table-cloths and carpets (here a table and not a floor covering). Robert More (d. 1559) added variety by having a salting trough in his parlour, presumably kept under the bed, […]",
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          "ref": "2003, Joan Thirsk, Rural Economy of England, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 155",
          "text": "John Parish of Beltoft, who died in 1590, left linen cloth, femble, and harden cloth worth £3 5s. 4d., femble yarn and harden yarn worth ten shillings, heckled line and femble worth two shillings and sixpence, braked hemp worth six shillings and ..."
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        "Alternative form of fimble (“(male, early-ripening) hemp”) (sometimes said, variously, to be specifically either coarse-fibred hemp or hemp prepared for use)."
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  "word": "femble"
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          "ref": "1804, Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture, The Repertory of arts and manufactures [afterw.] arts, manufactures and agriculture, page 77",
          "text": "... with nettles and other rubbish, sowed hemp on six acres three roods; he got two last and one half of seed , without taking the advantage of picking the femble hemp; after threshing he stacked it, and in the spring watered and dressed it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1859, Surtees Society, York Minster, James Raine, Publications of the Surtees Society, page 162",
          "text": "two linen table clothes, one femble tablecloth, two linen towels, […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, The Treatment of Poverty in Cambridgeshire 1597-1834, CUP Archive, page 35",
          "text": "The next year 65 stone of \"femble\" hemp1 were bought\" […]\n¹ There were three buyers of cloth and one of tow in 1622.\n² \"Femble\" hemp was the term applied to the fibre as prepared for use. (Vide Oxf. Dict.)"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, The Lincolnshire Historian",
          "text": "Sometimes also 'femble' sheets were listed. Often in the chests in which the bed linen was kept were towels, napkins, table-cloths and carpets (here a table and not a floor covering). Robert More (d. 1559) added variety by having a salting trough in his parlour, presumably kept under the bed, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2003, Joan Thirsk, Rural Economy of England, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 155",
          "text": "John Parish of Beltoft, who died in 1590, left linen cloth, femble, and harden cloth worth £3 5s. 4d., femble yarn and harden yarn worth ten shillings, heckled line and femble worth two shillings and sixpence, braked hemp worth six shillings and ..."
        }
      ],
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      "word": "fimble"
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