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fuller A fuller was engaged in the unattractive, evil-smelling trade of cleaning and bleaching clothes in large vats; he trod down articles with his feet. At the Transfiguration, Mark (9: 3) records that the whiteness of ' garments was beyond what any fuller (AV, NRSV marg.; ‘bleacher’, REB, NJB) could make.

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fuller one who cleanses and thickens cloth by treading or beating. OE. fullere — L. fullō, with native suffix -ER1.
So full vb. XIV. prob. back-formation infl. by (O)F. fouler or medL. fullāre.

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