buckram

A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.

Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—

Buckram was probably from the first a stiffened material employed for lining, often dyed.

A crab that has just molted; a papershell.

To stiffen with or as if with buckram.

A plant of species Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.