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(fo̵ol′ər)

noun

a person whose work is to full cloth

Origin: ME < OE fullere < L fullo, prob. < IE *bheld-, to strike > bolt

noun

a tool used by blacksmiths to hammer grooves into iron
a groove so made

Origin: < ? obs. full, to make full, complete < full

Fuller, (Richard) Buckminster 1895-1983; U.S. engineer, inventor, & philosopher
Fuller, (Sarah) Margaret (Marchioness Ossoli) 1810-50; U.S. writer, critic, & social reformer
Fuller, Melville Weston 1833-1910; U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. (1888-1910)

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noun

One that fulls cloth.

noun

A hammer used by a blacksmith for grooving or spreading iron.
A groove made by such a hammer.

Origin:

Origin: Possibly from full¹, to pleat

American jurist who served as the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1888-1910) and maintained that governmental powers must derive from a strict interpretation of the Constitution.

, R(ichard) Buckminster 1895-1983.

American architect and inventor who sought to solve practical problems with simple designs that require a minimum of materials and energy. The geodesic dome is his best-known invention.

, (Sarah) Margaret 1810-1850.

American writer and critic who edited the transcendentalist periodical Dial (1840-1842), was a pioneering literary critic for the New York Tribune (1844-1846), and wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), a major feminist tract.

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