fulleries

We are told by Seneca that thousands of sheep fed upon the rough mountains behind Stabiae, and the clothier's hall and numerous fulleries of Pompeii remind us that wool-growing was an important industry of that region.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

Soap was not known till the first century of the Empire, and the process of cleansing was all the more lengthy and elaborate; the details of the process are known to us from paintings at Pompeii, where they adorn the walls of fulleries which have been excavated.

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

At the lower extremity of the wood and on the stream are several fulleries, each requiring a force of eight horse-power to drive the water-wheels which work the stampers.

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874

Finally, the fulleries are no longer forced to suspend work in summer; the water is always sufficiently abundant to allow the employment of two sets of stampere at least, and often even of three.

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874

FULLERS, St. Sever, because the place so called, on the Adour, is or was famous for its tanneries and fulleries.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Finally, the fulleries are no longer forced to suspend work in summer; the water is always sufficiently abundant to allow the employment of two sets of stampere at least, and often even of three.

The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841

At the lower extremity of the wood and on the stream are several fulleries, each requiring a force of eight horse-power to drive the water-wheels which work the stampers.

The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841