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forel

Rhymes with -ɒɹəl

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

noun forels

  1. countable, historical, uncountable A kind of coarse parchment for book covers; a forrill.

verb forels · foreling · forelling · foreled · 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

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@misc{forel_2026,
  title = {forel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/forel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}