forel noun & verb. ['fɒr(ǝ)l] Also forrel. ME.
[Old French (mod. fourreau) sheath, from fuerre, from Frankish = Old High German fōtar, fuotar case, cover (German Futter lining), Gothic fōdr sheath, from Germanic, rel. to Sanskrit pātra receptacle, from pāti protects.]
A. noun.
1. A scabbard. Only in ME.

2. A case or covering for a book or manuscript. Now dial. LME.

3. A kind of parchment resembling vellum, used to cover books, esp. account-books. M16.

4. A selvedge, a border of cloth. Now dial. L17.
b. verb trans. Infl. -ll-. Cover (a book) with forel. obsolete exc. dial. M17.

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