forel

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

• Rhymes: -ɒɹəl

forel (countable and uncountable, plural forels)

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

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.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:

     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

• “forel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Rolfe, lofer

Borrowed from German Forelle.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /foːˈrɛl/, /fɔˈrɛl/

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• Hyphenation: fo‧rel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

forel m or f (plural forellen, diminutive forelletje n)

1. a trout, Salmo trutta
2. one of certain fish of the subfamily Salmoninae, specifically certain members of the genera Salvelinus and Oncorhynchus

• beekforel
• meerforel
• regenboogforel
• zalmforel
• zeeforel

• voorn

• → Indonesian: forel

• “forel” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]