OriginFrom Middle English forel (“case, sheath”), from Old French forrel, fourrel.
- countable, uncountableA kind of parchment for book covers; a forrill.
- 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”
Formsforels(plural) · forels(present, singular, third-person) · foreling(US, participle, present) · forelling(UK, participle, present) · foreled(US, participle, past) · foreled(US, past) · forelled(UK, participle, past) · forelled(UK, past)