Sarpler

SARPLER, sb. Obs. Glo. Also in form sarpelere Glo.1 1. A coarse pack-cloth made of hemp. Grose (1790) MS. add. (M.); Horae Subsecivae (1777) 377; Glo.1 2. A weight of wool: 252lb. Horae Subsecivae (1777) 377. [1. ME. sarpelere, OFr. serpeliere, woolpack, bag (Stratmann). 2. Sarplar of wool, otherwise called a pocket, is half a sack; a sack, eighty tod; a tod, two stone; and a stone, fourteen pound. This in Scotland is called Serpliathe; and contains eighty stone, Blount (1681).]