To pleat (a ruff); to arrange the pleats of (a gown). Obsolete.

To apply pressure to (something). transitive. To smooth or flatten (fabric or clothes) with an iron or clothes press; to iron.

transitive. To crimp or form folds in (linen) with a poting stick; = poke, v.1 9. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To crimp; to form the folds in (a ruff) with a poking-stick. Also intransitive. Obsolete.

To iron (linen, etc.). Now dialect.

transitive. To press and smooth (fabric, clothing, etc.) with a heated iron (iron, n.1 12). Also figurative and with down.

transitive. To make wavy by means of heated goffering-irons; to flute or crimp (the edge of lace, a frill, or trimming of any kind).

dialect. To iron (clothes).

transitive. To press or iron with a tailor's ‘goose’.

To polish or make smooth by rubbing; to iron (clothes). Obsolete.

to smooth with a flat-iron.

transitive. To shape (metal) using a fuller (fuller, n.2 1), esp. so as to make a groove or grooves; (also, in extended use) to give (linen) a…