[? f. FULL v.2 (sense 3) + -ER1.]
1. Blacksmithing, etc. A grooved tool on which iron is shaped by being driven into the grooves.
1864. Webster, Fuller, a die, a half-round set-hammer.
1896. Farrier’s Price List, Best Cast Steel, for Fullers, Stamps, &c.
2. A groove made by a fuller.
1855. Miles, Horse-shoeing, 9. The ‘fuller’ should be carried quite round the shoe to the heels, and the fullering iron should have both sides alike.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Fuller, the fluting groove of a bayonet.
1889. Daily Tel., 1 March, 5/8. The present pattern is too thin in the ‘fuller.’
Hence Fuller v., to stamp with a fuller; to groove by stamping; also dial. to goffer (linen). Fullered ppl. a. Fullering vbl. sb., the action of the vb.; also concr. the groove thus formed.
1820. Bracy Clark, Descr. New Horse Shoe, 14. Our old English custom of fullering.
1831. J. Holland, Manuf. Metal, I. 170. The shoes being fullered or grooved near the outer edge to receive the heads, and protect them as much as possible from being knocked or worn away.
1841. Hartshorne, Salopia Antiqua, Gloss., 434. Fullaring, a groove into which the nails of a horse’s shoe are inserted.
1855. Fullering iron [see sense 2 above].
1868. Regul. & Ord. Army, ¶ 573. The horse’s Shoe is not to be grooved or fullered.
1880. Blackmore, Mary Anerley, I. xi. 159. His linen clothes are dry, and even quite lately fullered—ironed you might call it.
Mod. Advt., Sandal horse shoe … made of plain, fuller’d, or Rodway bar.
