worstede

• werstede, wirsted, worchestede, worestede, worsested, worsted, wurstede, wurthstede
• woorstead, woosted, worestede, worstet, wosted, wursted (Late Middle English)

From Worstede, a town in Norfolk; equivalent to Old English worϸ (“enclosure”) +‎ stede (“place”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu(r)stɛd(ə)/

worstede (plural worstedes)

1. worsted (a kind of cloth)
2. A piece of worsted.

• English: worsted
• Scots: worset

• “worsted, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.