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Definitions of fuller

1. United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983) Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

2. a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

3. One whose occupation is to full cloth. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.

4. To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet. Webster Dictionary DB

5. A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; - called also a creaser. Webster Dictionary DB

6. One who thickens cloth by moistening, heating, and pressing. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

7. A bleacher or cleaner of cloth. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.

8. One who fulls cloth. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.

9. One who fulls and cleanses cloth. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

10. A set-hammer for forming grooves. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.

11. To form a groove. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.

12. One whose business is fulling. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.

13. The trade of the fullers, so far as it is mentioned in Scripture, appears to have consisted chiefly in cleansing garments and whitening them. The process of fulling or cleansing clothes consisted in treading or stamping on the garments with the feet or with bats in tubs of water, in which some alkaline substance answering the purpose of soap had been dissolved. The substances used for this purpose which are mentioned in Scripture are natron, ( Proverbs 25:20 ; Jeremiah 2:22 ) and soap. ( Malachi 3:2 ) Other substances also are mentioned as being employed in cleansing, which, together with alkali, seem to identify the Jewish with the Roman process, as urine and chalk. The process of whitening garments was performed by rubbing into them calk or earth of some kind. Creta cimolia (cimolite) was probably the earth most frequently used. The trade of the fullers, as causing offensive smells, and also as requiring space for drying clothes, appears to have been carried on at Jerusalem outside the city. biblestudytools.com

14. A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser. mso.anu.edu.au

15. The word "full" is from the Anglo-Saxon fullian, meaning "to whiten." To full is to press or scour cloth in a mill. This art is one of great antiquity. Mention is made of "fuller's soap" ( Malachi 3:2 ), and of "the fuller's field" ( 2 Kings 18:17 ). At his transfiguration our Lord's rainment is said to have been white "so as no fuller on earth could white them" ( Mark 9:3 ). En-rogel (q.v.), meaning literally "foot-fountain," has been interpreted as the "fuller's fountain," because there the fullers trod the cloth with their feet. biblestudytools.com

16. fool'er, n. a half-round set-hammer. gutenberg.org/ebooks/37683

17. One who fulls cloth; f.\'s earth, hydrous silicate of alumina. Concise Oxford Dictionary

18. Grooved tool on which iron is shaped; groove made by this esp. in horse-shoes; (vb) stamp with f. Concise Oxford Dictionary

19. One whose trade is to cleanse cloth. Complete Dictionary