单词 | fulling-stock |
释义 | > as lemmasfulling-stock 22. (More fully fulling-stock, fulling n.1) In a fulling-mill: Originally, the wooden trough or box in which the cloth is placed to be beaten by the ‘faller’ or the mallet; hence, this receptacle together with the ‘faller’. In modern use, stock is often taken to denote the ‘faller’ or mallet itself. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > fulling > mill > part of stock1377 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 445 Cloth..is nouȝt comly to were, Tyl it is fulled vnder fote or in fullyng stokkes. 1506–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 252 Pro factura de lez stoke 13s. 4d. 1674 W. Petty Disc. before Royal Soc. 64 The same is true of water gushing out upon the floats of under-shot Mills; as may be seen in the Stampers of Paper-Mills, the Stocks of Fulling-Mills [etc.]. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 109 Our Fulling-Mills that we now have, our Fallers are taken up a great height, and so fall down into the Stock upon the Cloth. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 109 The Mills that go by Wind, the Fallers, or Feet, fall down perpendicular into the Stock, through a square hole, where the Cloth is, and so attracts no Wind, nor can any Air get into the Stock or Chest where the Cloth is. 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. iii. 103 The ‘fulling-stocks’,.. are hollow receptacles in which an enormous oaken hammer or stock vibrates up and down, each stock being kept in motion by machinery connected with a steam-engine. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 342 By steeping the cloth in alkaline liquor, and beating it in the fulling stocks. < as lemmas |
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