Obs. [from Cartmel on Morecambe Bay.] (See quot.)
1610. Act 7 Jas. I., xvi. § 2. All Cogware, Kendalles, course Cottons, and Carptmeales … made within the said Counties of Cumberland and Westmerland, or within the said Townes and Parishes of Carptmeale, Hawkeshead, and Broughton, in the said Countie of Lancaster.
1677–1692. Coles, Carpemeals.
1704. Worlidge, Dict. Rust. et Urb., Carpmeals, a coarse kind of Cloth made in the North of England, and formerly mentioned. I know not whether the Name continues still.
1799. Strutt, Dress & Habits, II. 195.
