Middle English Dictionary Entry
fullinge ger.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | fullinge ger.(2) Also (error) sullinge |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Fulling (of cloth); dressing (of skins); (b) mortification (of the flesh).
Associated quotations
a
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)42b : Multicium: Sullynge [read: Fullynge] cloþe.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)182 : Fullynge: fullatura.
- (c1443) Pet.Chanc.in Archaeol.Cant.43204 : [They] were in the seid mylle..doyng here craft of fullynge of cloth.
- ?a1450 Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.12065 : For shappyng, laying in oyle, and the fullyng redy to the knyffe..For the fullyng, colouryng, and granyng redy to the payring.
b
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)1266 : Swilk men..sal trauel tast, With grete fullyng þer flesch to wast.
2.
fulling erthe, fuller's earth; ~ mill(e, ~ melne, fulling mill; ~ staf, fuller's pole or bat; ~ stok, fulling trough.
Associated quotations
- (a1399) Oath Bk.Colchester9 : Fullying erthe, for the bolk.
- (1403) Close R.Hen.IV140 : Fullyngmelne.
- (c1418) Acc.Abingdon in Camd.n.s.5188 fn. : At ye Fullingmilles.
- a1425(a1400) Titus & V.(Pep 2014)167 : Anoþer toke a fullyng staffe And on þe heed þerwiþ him ȝaue.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)15.445 : Cloth..fulled vnder fote or in fullyng stokkes.
- (c1438) Pet.Chanc.in Archaeol.Cant.43202 : [The] fullyng-stokke [was to be measured for] iij doseyn cloth.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)256/827 : Take the woll of a fullynge myll that goth fro the cloth with walkynge and flieth about on the walles.
- (a1471) Stonor1.106 : The fermour of the ffullyng mylle.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1437) in Salzman Building in Engl.509 : Undertake to make a Fullyng mille..well and suffiently..in alle manere werke of Carpentrie..bothe of the bayes, the whelis, the fullyng stokkes.
Note: Additional quote(s)