forel

See also: Forel

English

Etymology

From Middle English forel (“case, sheath”), from Old French forrel, fourrel.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒɹəl

Noun

forel (countable and uncountable, plural forels)

1. A kind of parchment for book covers; a forrill.

Verb

forel (third-person singular simple present forels, present participle (US) foreling or (UK) forelling, simple past and past participle (US) foreled or (UK) forelled)

1. To bind with a forel.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:

     As for Josephus's conceit , that the second edition of the temple by Zerubbabel , as it was new forelled and filleted with gold by Herod , was a statelier volume than the first of Solomon

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “forel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Rolfe, lofer