Filling

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The woof in woven fabrics.

II. Filling ·noun Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.

III. Filling ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Fill.

IV. Filling ·noun That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, ·etc.

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