fuller
fuller (fo̵ol′ər)
noun
a person whose work is to full cloth
Etymology: ME < OE fullere < L fullo, prob. < IE *bheld-, to strike > bolt
fuller (fo̵ol′ər)
noun
- a tool used by blacksmiths to hammer grooves into iron
- a groove so made
Etymology: < ? obs. full, to make full, complete < full
Ful·ler (fo̵ol′ər)
Fuller, (Richard) Buckminster (buk′min stər) 1895-1983; U.S. engineer, inventor, & philosopher
- fo̵ol′ər
Fuller, (Sarah) Margaret (Marchioness Ossoli) 1810-50; U.S. writer, critic, & social reformer
- fo̵ol′ər
Fuller, Melville Weston (wes′tən) 1833-1910; U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. (1888-1910)
Possessives
- earth: These rocks have been altered to a soft absorbent clay mineral known as fullers ' earth or bentonite.
- soap: For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers ' soap.
Object
- earth: The cloth was washed in stale human urine, which contains ammonia, and fullers earth.
Converse of object
- like: For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers ' soap.
Modifies a noun
- earth: It pays to grease the leader down to the tippet knot and sink the tippet with fullers earth.
Money, wife, is the true fuller's earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
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