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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The process of cleansing, scouring, and pressing woolen goods to felt the fibers together and make the cloth stronger and firmer. It is also termed milling, because the cloth is scoured in a water-mill.
  • noun The act of becoming full: as, the fulling of the moon.
  • noun Baptism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure.
  • noun a mill for fulling cloth as by means of pesties or stampers, which alternately fall into and rise from troughs where the cloth is placed with hot water and fuller's earth, or other cleansing materials.

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  • verb Present participle of full. To make cloth denser and firmer.
  • noun Baptism.

Etymologies

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From full.

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From Middle English fulling, fullynge, from fullen, fulwen ("to baptise"), equivalent to full +‎ -ing.

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