local. [?] A stout and closely woven unglazed tammy.
1784. Salem Gaz., in Alice M. Earle, Costume Colonial Times (1894), 257. Marone Ribb’d Wildbores.
1788. Massachusetts Spy, 23 Oct., 3/4. Wildbore Camblets.
1798. Times, 28 June, 4/4. 6,000 Yards Durants, Callimancoes, Wildbores, &c.
1852. in A. Holroyd, Collect. Bradf. (1873), 179. About 1813, Messrs. James Akroyd and Son, of Halifax,… produced the articles known by the names of wildbores and plainbacks, from which sprung the single-twilled merinos.
1857. J. James, Worsted Manuf., 374. A dobby piece was … nothing more than a figured wildbore. Ibid., 627. About the year 1783, their use [sc. Leeds camblets] … began to decline, and the stuff makers at Leeds commenced making wildbores.
1876. Cudworth, Round about Bradford, 330. The worsted business,… the principal make being shalloons and wildbores.
