Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A power-machine for fulling and felting felts and woven fabrics, to improve their texture by making them thicker, closer, and heavier.
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Examples
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In the meantime Bradley & Newell sold their fulling-mill to Rice Weed.
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In the meantime Bradley & Newell sold their fulling-mill to Rice Weed.
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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.
Rob Roy 2005
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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.
Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane
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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 Various
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The first fulling-mill for making cloth was started at Rowley in
The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle
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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.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 Various
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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?
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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.
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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.
Rob Roy 1887
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