forel

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noun

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

OriginMiddle English forel ← Old French forrel →
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Meanings

nounforel (countable and uncountable, plural forels)

plural forels

  1. countablehistoricaluncountableA kind of coarse parchment for book covers; a forrill.
verbforel (third-person singular simple present forels, present participle (US) foreling or (UK) forelling, simple past and past participle (US) foreled or (UK) forelled)

present singular third person forels · US participle present foreling · UK participle present forelling · US participle past foreled · US past foreled · UK participle past forelled · UK past forelled

  1. To bind with a forel.

    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

    1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Old Frenchforrel
  2. Middle Englishforel“case, sheath”
  3. Englishforel

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with forel

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Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

forel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forel

MLA

“forel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forel. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “forel,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forel.

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