fuller
fuller Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Comparative form of full: containing or holding more; more complete, rounded, or voluminous.
"Reading the primary historical documents gave the students a fuller understanding of the era."
• noun
A craftsperson who fulls cloth by cleansing, scouring, and thickening woven wool through beating and pressing.
"In medieval English towns, the fuller played a vital role in preparing raw woolen fabric for the market."
A blacksmith's hammer or rounded die with a cylindrical or hemispherical face, used for spreading metal or forming grooves.
"The blacksmith positioned the heated iron bar on the anvil and struck it with a fuller to draw out the metal."
A shallow, rounded groove forged or ground along the flat side of a blade to lighten and stiffen it.
"The museum curator pointed out the central fuller running down the length of the antique cavalry saber."
• verb
To form a groove in or spread out (heated metal) using a blacksmith's fuller.
"The bladesmith carefully fullered the steel blank to reduce its weight without sacrificing structural strength."
• Rhymes for fuller
Word Origin & Etymology
As a comparative adjective, it comes from Old English 'full' combined with the comparative suffix '-er'. As a noun for a cloth-worker, it derives from Old English 'fullere', borrowed from Late Latin 'fullo' (one who treads and cleans cloth).