▪ I. † ˈfulling, vbl. n.1 Obs.
Also 5 folowynge.
[f. full v.1]
Baptizing.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 257 Som acounteþ from þe fullynge of Crist. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xv. 207 Ther is follyng of font and follyng in blod-shedynge. c 1450 Myrc 146 Eghte dayes they schullen abyde That at the fonte halowynge They mowe take here folowynge. 1483 Festivall (W. de W. 1515) 48 This trynyte was knowen in the fullynge of Cryst as the gospel setteth. |
▪ II. fulling, vbl. n.2 see after
full v.
2▪ III. fulling, vbl. n.3 (
ˈfʊlɪŋ)
[f. full v.3 + -ing1.] 1. The process of cleansing and thickening cloth by beating and washing; also called
milling.
| 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 348/2 This trade of Milling or thickning Cloth is termed Fulling. 1791 Hamilton tr. Berthollet's Dyeing I. i. ii. i. 127 He has explained the effects of fulling by the external conformation of the hair or wool of animals. 1812 Southey in Q. Rev. VII. 63 The women perform the work of fulling by treading the cloth in a tub. |
| transf. 1894 Gould Illustr. Dict. Med., Fulling, in massage, a valuable method of kneading, named from the motion used by fullers in rubbing linen between their hands. |
2. attrib. as
fulling-boy,
fulling-hammer,
† fulling-mace,
fulling-stone;
† fulling-clay,
† -earth = fuller's earth;
fulling-mill, a mill in which cloth is fulled or milled by being beaten with wooden mallets, which are let fall upon it (or in modern use, by being pressed between rollers) and cleansed with soap or fuller's earth;
† fulling-stocks, wooden mallets worked by machinery, used for fulling cloth.
| 1677 A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 109, If I had not been an old Clothier, and a *Fulling-Boy when I was young. |
| 1688 Lond. Gaz. No. 2338/1 We do..streightly Charge..that no manner of..*Fulling Clay, be..exported. 1720 Ibid. No. 5853/1 Any Fuller's-Earth, or Fulling-Clay. |
| 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 591 A certain poor man..went to the Sea, minding to have gone into Kent for *Fulling Earth. 1796 Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 186 Some fulling Earths, it is said, effervesce slightly with acids. |
| 1712 Motteux Quixote iii. vi. (1749) I. 160 Let the six *fulling-hammers be transform'd into so many giants. |
| 1612 Shelton Quixote iii. vii. 175 Without being able to attribute it to the little knowledge of the *fulling Maces or the darkenesse of the night. |
| 1417–18 Abingdon Acc. (Camden) 88 note, The reparacions done this yere at y⊇ *Fullingmilles. 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. 9 b, Fullyngmylnes, sythe mylnes, cutlersmylnes. 1612 in Naworth Househ. Bks. 8 The wholl yeares rent of the fulling mill. 1748 Smollett Rod. Rand. xvi. (1804) 97 My heart went knock, knock..like a fulling-mill. 1805 J. Luccock Nat. Wool 161 Nor will the cloth..endure without injury the violent strokes of the fulling mill. 1876 Holland Sev. Oaks i. 2 Below this two or three saw-mills..and a fulling-mill. 1377 *Fullyng-stokkes [see full v.3 1]. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 342/2 The ‘fulling-stocks’..consist of heavy wooden mallets. |
| 1884 J. Payne 1000 Nts. & One Nt. VIII. 135 Making the ship fast to one of the *Fulling-Stones. |