MELTON

Proper noun

Melton

A surname.

The Borough of Melton, a local government district in Leicestershire, England, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in Melton Mowbray.

A village in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM2850)

Anagrams

• loment, molten, tolmen

Etymology

Noun

melton (countable and uncountable, plural meltons)

A tough, short-napped material used for making overcoats.

Anagrams

• loment, molten, tolmen

Source: Wiktionary


Mel"ton, Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]

Definition: A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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