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FULLING MILL

Definition: FULLING MILL

FULLING MILL

1. A mill for fulling cloth as by means of pesties or stampers, which alternately fall into and rise from troughs where the cloth is placed with hot water and fuller's earth, or other cleansing materials.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: FULLING MILL

DomainDefinition

Occupations

A machine that shrinks and felts fibers of woolen cloth through application of moisture, heat, friction, and pressure. May be used to crush and dust carbonized vegetable matter from dry woolen cloth. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: FULLING MILL

English words defined with "FULLING MILL": Milled clothScouring stockWalk-mill. (references)
Specialty definitions using "FULLING MILL": CONTINUOUS-CRUSHER OPERATOR. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FULLING MILL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fulling mill

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: FULLING MILL

Language Translations for "FULLING MILL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

vin. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ullingfay illmay

   

Welsh

  

pandy. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FULLING MILL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-g-i-i-l-l-l-l-m-n-u"

-3 letters: illuming.

-4 letters: filling, filming, fluming, fulling, lulling, milling, mulling.

-5 letters: filing, fuming, ingulf, liming, limuli, muling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FULLING MILL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 55 4C 4C 49 4E 47      4D 49 4C 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01010101 01001100 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01001101 01001001 01001100 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#85 &#76 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#77 &#73 &#76 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0055 004C 004C 0049 004E 0047      004D 0049 004C 004C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40554646434841247434646

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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