forel

See also: førel

English

Etymology

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

Noun

forel (countable and uncountable, plural forels)

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

Verb

forel (third-person singular simple present forels, present participle forelling, simple past and past participle forelled)

  1. To bind with a forel.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for forel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • forel(file)

Noun

forel m (plural forellen, diminutive forelletje n)

  1. trout (fish species)

Derived terms
  • regenboogforel
  • zalmforel
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