1. a person who fulls cloth.

1. a half-round hammer used for grooving and spreading iron.
2. a tool or part of a die for reducing the sectional area of a piece of work.
3. a groove running along the flat of a sword blade.

4. to reduce the sectional area of (a piece of metal) with a fuller or fullers.

1. U.S. painter.
2. U.S. novelist, poet, and critic.
3. chief justice of the U.S. 1888–1910.
4. U.S. engineer, designer, and architect.
5. U.S. author and literary critic.
6. English clergyman and historian.

1. a person who fulls cloth for his living

1. a tool for forging a groove
2. a tool for caulking a riveted joint

3. to forge (a groove) or caulk (a riveted joint) with a fuller

1. (Richard) Buckminster . 1895–1983, US architect and engineer: developed the geodesic dome
2. Roy (Broadbent). 1912–91, British poet and writer, whose collections include The Middle of a War (1942) and A Lost Season (1944), both of which are concerned with World War II, Epitaphs and Occasions (1949), and Available for Dreams (1989)
3. Thomas . 1608–61, English clergyman and antiquarian; author of The Worthies of England (1662)

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