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full-wave rectifier |
full-winged |
fullage |
fullam |
fullback |
Fuller
| fuller's earth
| fuller's teasel
| fullerene
| fullery
| fulling
Fuller
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Fuller has 3 senses
- fuller(n = noun.person) melville w. fuller, melville weston fuller - United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910); Array is a kind of chief justice
- fuller(n = noun.person) buckminster fuller, r. buckminster fuller, richard buckminster fuller - United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983); Array is a kind of applied scientist, engineer, technologist, architect, designer
- fuller(n = noun.person) Array - a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living; Array is a kind of working man, working person, workingman, workman
Derived form verb full1
CIDE DICTIONARY
One whose occupation is to full cloth. [1913 Webster]
A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser . [1913 Webster]
Fuller, v. t.
To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Fuller, n. a person who fulls cloth.
Idiom
fuller's earth a type of clay used in fulling cloth and as an adsorbent.
Fuller, n. & v.
--n.
1 a grooved or rounded tool on which iron is shaped.
2 a groove made by this esp. in a horseshoe.
--v.tr. stamp with a fuller.
--n.
1 a grooved or rounded tool on which iron is shaped.
2 a groove made by this esp. in a horseshoe.
--v.tr. stamp with a fuller.
Etymology
19th c.: orig. unkn.
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