The Definition of the word Fuller

Fuller

The word full" is from the Anglo-Saxon fullian, meaning "to" "whiten." To full is to press or scour cloth in a mill. This art" "is one of great antiquity. Mention is made of "fuller's soap" "(Mal. 3:2), and of "the fuller's field" (2 Kings 18:17). At his" transfiguration our Lord's rainment is said to have been white so as no fuller on earth could white them (Mark 9:3). En-rogel "(q.v.), meaning literally "foot-fountain," has been interpreted" "as the "fuller's fountain," because there the fullers trod the" cloth with their feet.