Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place or works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a place built for the process of
fulling wool in cloth-making. Usually refers to a period in history before the process was carried out at a mill.
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Examples
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Each fullery could for the most part only employ a single set of stampers, and it was not unusual to see the work entirely suspended.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874
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Each fullery could for the most part only employ a single set of stampers, and it was not unusual to see the work entirely suspended.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841
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