What does "faxed" mean?

simple past and past participle of fax

Faxed

Common synonyms include: facsimile, facsimile, facsimile, facsimile machine, fax machine, fax, no printer.

//fækst// adj, verb

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Verb

Adjective

1
Having a head of hair; hairy. obsolete
"A comet is a ‘faxed’ star, that is, a hairy, a tailed star. But ‘faxed’ got corrupted into ‘fixed’ star during the seventeenth century."

"I faxed Tom a copy of my receipt."

Etymology 1

From Middle English *faxed, from Old English feaxed, ġefeaxed (“haired; having hair”), from Old English feax (“hair”). More at fax.

Etymology 2

From fax (“to send a fax/facsimile”).

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