Obs. rare. Also stocbred. [a. MFlem. stocbreet (MLG. stockbrét, MHG. stockbreit), lit. ‘yard-wide’ (stok yard measure, breet BROAD a.). The later form coincides with the name of a town in Hants.] Some kind of cloth.
1526. J. Hacket, To Wolsey, 4 July (MS. Cott. Galba B. IX. 22). The bourgessys of the sayd town [Bruges] cawssyd to bryng fro Andwerp and fro the Sclus manny kersseys and stocbreds.
1583. Rates Custom Ho., G ij. Rates for clothes…. Streits Stockbridges Cardenals.
