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forel

forel noun: a kind of coarse parchment for book covers; a forrill.

Noun

forel (countable and uncountable, plural forels)

  1. (historical) A kind of coarse parchment for book covers; a forrill.

Verb

forel (third-person singular simple present forels, present participle (US) foreling or (UK) forelling, simple past and past participle (US) foreled or (UK) 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 Solomon1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC

forel meaning in Bengali

forel in Bengali

ফোরিল দিয়ে বাঁধাই করা

Forms of forel

Noun
pluralforels
Verb
third-person singular presentforels
present participle USforeling
present participle UKforelling
past participle USforeled
past USforeled
past participle UKforelled
past UKforelled

Origin of forel

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

Words that rhyme with forel

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Questions about forel

What does forel mean?
Forel means a kind of coarse parchment for book covers; a forrill.
What is forel in Bengali?
Forel in Bengali is ফোরিল দিয়ে বাঁধাই করা. See Forel meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is forel?
Forel can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of forel?
The plural of forel is forels.

Words near forel in the dictionary

  1. foreknowings
  2. foreknowledge
  3. foreknowledges
  4. foreknown
  5. foreknows
  6. forel
  7. foreladies
  8. forelady
  9. forelaid
  10. forelain
  11. foreland

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forel (page history and authors); forel (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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