Sentence:  ... and trimming great quantities of single-width coarse frieze for conversion into the everlasting suits that farmers wore on Sundays, and like quantities of thick white flannel, which their wives made into sleeveless waistcoats or <WSD>bawneens</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A waistcoat with sleeves, typically worn by labourers and fishermen.