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Fulling vs Mulling - What's the difference?

fulling | mulling |

As nouns the difference between fulling and mulling

is that fulling is baptism while mulling is the act of one who mulls or thinks over something.

As verbs the difference between fulling and mulling

is that fulling is to make cloth denser and firmer while mulling is .

fulling

English

(wikipedia fulling)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fulling, fullynge, from fullen, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • Baptism.

    • Etymology 2

    From full.

    Verb

    (head)
  • To make cloth denser and firmer.

    • mulling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who mulls or thinks over something.
  • * 2001 , Charles Stickney, World Enough: Travel Memoirs (page 333)
    • My mullings over where to go with my life, and now also where to go after Phuket island, incorporated what I saw in my everyday walks