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- n. A power-machine for fulling and felting felts and woven fabrics, to improve their texture by making them thicker, closer, and heavier. Such mills operate by means of rollers, stampers, and beaters, of various forms and usually of wood, which beat, roll, and press the fabric in hot suds and fullers' earth, felting it together till the required texture is obtained. An unavoidable result of the process is a reduction in length, in width, and, in the case of hats, of size.
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“In the meantime Bradley & Newell sold their fulling-mill to Rice Weed.”
“Quixote (Part I., chap. xx.) where Sancho relates it to beguile the hours of the memorable night when the noise of the fulling-mill so terrified the doughty knight and his squire.”
“Another, with more capital, established a fulling-mill, and so on.”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
“The first fulling-mill for making cloth was started at Rowley in”
“In 1801, Moses Hale, whose father had long before started a fulling-mill in Dracut, established a carding-mill on River Meadow Brook, -- the first enterprise of the kind in Middlesex County.”
“Am I by chance obliged, being, as I am, a knight, to know and distinguish noises, and perceive which are of a fulling-mill, or no?”
“ That is most true, replied Sancho, seeing the only sound of the maces of a fulling-mill could trouble and disquiet the heart of so valiant a knight as you are.”
“My blood throbbed, to my feverish apprehension, in pulsations which resembled the deep and regular strokes of a distant fulling-mill, and tingled in my veins like streams of liquid fire.”
“The thrifty Mr. Everitt had a pleasing variety of occupations; he was also a successful farmer, a good fence-builder, and he ran a fulling-mill.”
“Englanders "have a fulling-mill and caused their little ones to be very dilligent in spinning cotton-woole, many of them having been clothiers in England.”
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