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FULLER
Girl/Female
Biblical
The fuller's fountain, the well of searching.
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : from Middle English ambler ‘walker’, ‘steady-paced horse or mule’ (ultimately from Latin ambulare ‘to walk’), probably applied to someone with a steady, easy-going temperament. Reaney suggests that it may have been a facetious nickname for a fuller.Richard Ambler is recorded in MA in 1639, in the New Haven Colony by 1647, and still living in CT in 1700. Many bearers are descended from William Ambler, who was mayor of Doncaster in 1717, at least one of whose sons settled in VA.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : metonymic occupational name for a fuller, from Middle English tred(en) ‘to tread’ + well ‘well’. Fulling was the process by which newly woven cloth was cleaned and shrunk by the use of heat, water, and pressure (from treading) before finally being stretched and laid out to dry on tenter hooks.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Cloth Thickener
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained; possibly from the Germanic personal name mentioned at 2.In some cases, possibly an altered spelling of German Vollert, Fullert, or Füllert, from the personal name Vol(l)hard(t), from Volkhart, a compound of Old High German volc ‘tribe’, ‘people’, hart ‘bold’.
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, TUCKER means "cloth fuller."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from an unidentified place, or possibly an altered form of Fullerton.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a fuller (see Fuller), from Old French fulun, foul(l)on.
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, English
Fuller; Cloth Washer; One who Thickens Cloth
Biblical
the fuller's fountain; the well of searching
Surname or Lastname
English (especially Yorkshire) and Scottish
English (especially Yorkshire) and Scottish : occupational name for a fuller, Middle English walkere, Old English wealcere, an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk, tread’. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker.The name was brought to North America from northern England and Scotland independently by many different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Samuel Walker came to Lynn, MA, in about 1630; Philip Walker was in Rehoboth, MA, in or before 1643. The surname was also established in VA before 1650; a Thomas Walker, born in 1715 in King and Queen Co., VA, was a physician, soldier, and explorer.
Boy/Male
English
Cloth thickener.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a dresser of cloth, Old English fullere (from Latin fullo, with the addition of the English agent suffix). The Middle English successor of this word had also been reinforced by Old French fouleor, foleur, of similar origin. The work of the fuller was to scour and thicken the raw cloth by beating and trampling it in water. This surname is found mostly in southeast England and East Anglia. See also Tucker and Walker.In a few cases the name may be of German origin with the same form and meaning as 1 (from Latin fullare).Americanized version of French Fournier.Samuel Fuller (1589–1633), born in Redenhall, Norfolk, England, was among the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a deacon of the church and until his death functioned as Plymouth Colony’s physician.
Boy/Male
American, British, English, Jamaican
Cloth Thickener; Cloth Bleacher; Clothing Presser; Dresser of Cloth
Male
English
 English name derived from the Scandinavian habitational surname Walkyr, from kiarr, WALKER means "from the wall by the marsh." English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from Middle English walkere from Old English wealcere ("to walk, tread"), hence "cloth fuller."Â
Surname or Lastname
German
German : eastern variant of Drescher.English : from an agent derivative of Middle English dressen ‘to arrange’ (in certain specific senses), possibly an occupational name for someone who dressed or finished cloth. Compare Fuller.
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English (chiefly southwestern England and South Wales)
English (chiefly southwestern England and South Wales) : occupational name for a fuller, from an agent derivative of Middle English tuck(en) ‘to full cloth’ (Old English tūcian ‘to torment’). This was the term used for the process in the Middle Ages in southwestern England, and the surname is more common there than elsewhere. Compare Fuller and Walker.Americanized form of Jewish To(c)ker (see Tokarz).Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tuachair ‘descendant of Tuachar’, a personal name composed of the elements tuath ‘people’ + car ‘dear’, ‘beloved’.Possibly also an Americanized form of German Tucher, from an occupational name for a cloth maker or merchant, from an agent derivative of Middle High German tuoch ‘cloth’.
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n.
The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
n.
A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to metaphrase.
v. t.
One whose occupation is to full cloth.
n.
A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
n.
Any one of the authors of the three synoptic Gospels, which give a history of our Lord's life and ministry, in distinction from the writer of John's Gospel, which gives a fuller record of his teachings.
a.
A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.
v. i.
To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
n.
The upper stratum of fuller's earth.
a.
Pertaining to a fuller of cloth.
v. t.
A fuller.
a.
A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser.
n.
A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.
v. t.
A fuller of cloth.
v. t.
To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet.
v. t.
To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question.
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of Fullery