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▪ I. † ˈfulling, vbl. n.1 Obs.
Also 5 folowynge.
[f. full v.1]
Baptizing.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 257 Som acounteþ from þe fullynge of Crist. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xv. 207 Ther is follyng of font and follyng in blod-shedynge. c1450Myrc 146 Eghte dayes they schullen abyde That at the fonte halowynge They mowe take here folowynge. 1483Festivall (W. de W. 1515) 48 This trynyte was knowen in the fullynge of Cryst as the gospel setteth.
▪ II. fulling, vbl. n.2
see after full v.2
▪ III. fulling, vbl. n.3|ˈfʊlɪŋ|
[f. full v.3 + -ing1.]
1. The process of cleansing and thickening cloth by beating and washing; also called milling.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 348/2 This trade of Milling or thickning Cloth is termed Fulling. 1791Hamilton tr. Berthollet's Dyeing I. i. ii. i. 127 He has explained the effects of fulling by the external conformation of the hair or wool of animals. 1812Southey in Q. Rev. VII. 63 The women perform the work of fulling by treading the cloth in a tub.
transf.1894Gould Illustr. Dict. Med., Fulling, in massage, a valuable method of kneading, named from the motion used by fullers in rubbing linen between their hands.
2. attrib. as fulling-boy, fulling-hammer, † fulling-mace, fulling-stone; † fulling-clay, † -earth = fuller's earth; fulling-mill, a mill in which cloth is fulled or milled by being beaten with wooden mallets, which are let fall upon it (or in modern use, by being pressed between rollers) and cleansed with soap or fuller's earth; † fulling-stocks, wooden mallets worked by machinery, used for fulling cloth.
1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 109, If I had not been an old Clothier, and a *Fulling-Boy when I was young.
1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2338/1 We do..streightly Charge..that no manner of..*Fulling Clay, be..exported. 1720Ibid. No. 5853/1 Any Fuller's-Earth, or Fulling-Clay.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 591 A certain poor man..went to the Sea, minding to have gone into Kent for *Fulling Earth. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 186 Some fulling Earths, it is said, effervesce slightly with acids.
1712Motteux Quixote iii. vi. (1749) I. 160 Let the six *fulling-hammers be transform'd into so many giants.
1612Shelton Quixote iii. vii. 175 Without being able to attribute it to the little knowledge of the *fulling Maces or the darkenesse of the night.
1417–18Abingdon Acc. (Camden) 88 note, The reparacions done this yere at y⊇ *Fullingmilles. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 9 b, Fullyngmylnes, sythe mylnes, cutlersmylnes. 1612in Naworth Househ. Bks. 8 The wholl yeares rent of the fulling mill. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xvi. (1804) 97 My heart went knock, knock..like a fulling-mill. 1805J. Luccock Nat. Wool 161 Nor will the cloth..endure without injury the violent strokes of the fulling mill. 1876Holland Sev. Oaks i. 2 Below this two or three saw-mills..and a fulling-mill. 1377*Fullyng-stokkes [see full v.3 1]. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 342/2 The ‘fulling-stocks’..consist of heavy wooden mallets.
1884J. Payne 1000 Nts. & One Nt. VIII. 135 Making the ship fast to one of the *Fulling-Stones. |