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n. One that fulls cloth. |
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n. 1. A hammer used by a blacksmith for grooving or spreading iron. 2. A groove made by such a hammer. [Possibly from FULL1, to pleat.] |
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Fuller, (Sarah) Margaret1810-1850.
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Tweet American writer and critic who edited the transcendentalist periodical The Dial (1840-1842), was a pioneering literary critic for the New York Tribune (1844-1846), and wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), a major feminist tract.  (click for a larger image) Margaret Fuller19th-century colored engraving |
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American architect and inventor who sought to solve practical problems with simple designs that require a minimum of materials and energy. The geodesic dome is his best-known invention. |
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American jurist who served as the chief justice of the US Supreme Court (1888-1910) and maintained that governmental powers must derive from a strict interpretation of the Constitution. |
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