'Fulling' definitions:
Definition of 'Fulling'
From: GCIDE
- Full \Full\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fulled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fulling.] [OE. fullen, OF. fuler, fouler, F. fouler, LL. fullare, fr. L. fullo fuller, cloth fuller, cf. Gr. ? shining, white, AS. fullian to whiten as a fuller, to baptize, fullere a fuller. Cf. Defile to foul, Foil to frustrate, Fuller. n. ] To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fulling'
From: GCIDE
- Fulling \Full"ing\, n. The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure. [1913 Webster]
- Fulling mill, a mill for fulling cloth as by means of pesties or stampers, which alternately fall into and rise from troughs where the cloth is placed with hot water and fuller's earth, or other cleansing materials. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Fulling'
- At full,
- Full,
- Full and by,
- Fulled,
- Fullness,
- In full,
- be full,
- to the full,
- At full cock,
- At full sea,
- Full age,
- Full back,
- Full band,
- Full binding,
- Full bottom,
- Full brother,
- Full butt,
- Full canonicals,
- Full cry,
- Full dress,
- Full hand,
- Full house,
- Full moon,
- Full of the moon,
- Full organ,
- Full pay,
- Full score,
- Full sea,
- Full sister,
- Full swing,
- Full tilt,
- Fulling mill,
- In full blast,
- In full uniform,
- To be in full feather,
- chock full,
- cram full,
- full admiral,
- full blast,
- full blood,
- full blooded,
- full bloom,
- full bodied,
- full circle,
- full complement,
- full cousin,
- full duplex,
- full employment,
- full fledged,
- full gainer,
- full general,
- full grown,
- full measure,
- full nelson,
- full of beans,
- full of life,
- full page,
- full point,
- full professor,
- full radiator,
- full scale,
- full scope,
- full skirt,
- full stop,
- full term,
- full time,
- full tontine,
- full treatment,
- in full action,
- in full swing,
- in full view,
- make full,
- Chock-full,
- Choke-full,
- Full-blooded,
- Full-bloomed,
- Full-blown,
- Full-bottomed,
- Full-butt,
- Full-drive,
- Full-formed,
- Full-grown,
- Full-hearted,
- Full-hot,
- Full-manned,
- Full-orbed,
- Full-sailed,
- Full-winged,
- To have one's hands full,
- chuck-full,
- full faith and credit,
- full metal jacket,
- full moon maple,
- full phase of the moon,
- full service bank,
- full-blood,
- full-bodied,
- full-bosomed,
- full-clad,
- full-dress,
- full-face,
- full-fashioned,
- full-fledged,
- full-length,
- full-of-the-moon,
- full-page,
- full-scale,
- full-size,
- full-strength,
- full-term,
- full-time,
- give full measure,
- full-dress uniform,
- full-wave rectifier,
- full jammed jam-packed packed,
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