fulling in English

verb

1

make (something) full; fill up.

he full up the house with bawling

2

gather or pleat (fabric) so as to make a garment full.

Her skirt was white, fulled and gathered and looked as if the entire milky way had fallen upon it.

3

(of the moon or tide) become full.

I have cured many cases of goitre with Iodine, giving a powder every night for four nights, after the moon fulled and was waning.

4

clean, shrink, and felt (cloth) by heat, pressure, and moisture.

The best of them all was surely broadcloth, which in the eighteenth century was a superfine grade of woolen cloth that was fulled , or shrunk, napped, and shorn so that it was the consistency of felt but with a smooth surface.

verb

wax

Use "fulling" in a sentence

1. The site then consisted of a grist and two fulling mills.

2. A later reference of 1498 describes Fromebridge as corn, malt and fulling mills.

3. A mobile fulling station comprises a frame made of beams that are welded together.

4. It had two fulling stocks, a gig mill and in addition, a grist mill, not an uncommon combination.

5. It was recorded as a fulling mill, although it may at least inpart have been a grist mill.

6. His descendants produced small guns during the Thirty Years' War, and eventually acquired fulling mills, coal mines, and an iron forge.

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