Forwall

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To boil away. intransitive, obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English forwallen, from Old English forweallan (“to boil away”), equivalent to for- (“away, off”) + wall (“to boil”). Related to well.

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