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Baptism.
Present participle of full. To make cloth denser and firmer.
From Middle English fulling, fullynge, from fullen, fulwen (“to baptise”), equivalent to full + -ing.
From Wiktionary
From full.
From the mention of a fulling mill in 1311 it is possible that woollen manufacture had been begun at that time.
This hot water and agitation process is known technically as "fulling."
Various arts were attributed to her - shipbuilding, the goldsmith's craft, fulling, shoemaking and other branches of industry.
A woollen industry was probably established at an early date, for there is reference to a fulling mill in a charter of King Edgar dated 909.
The town has an important woollen trade and possesses dyeing and fulling mills.
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