| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  f l |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: fulled, full·ing, fulls
To increase the weight and bulk of (cloth) by shrinking and beating or pressing. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English fullen, from Old French fouler, from Vulgar Latin *full re, from Latin full , fuller. See bhel-2 in Appendix I.
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