See Also: Fold(casino)
Fold(money)
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FOLD-COURSE, Eng(law)
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fold(3) (iou)



fold noun2. ME.
[from FOLD verb1.]
(Either of) the two parts of an object which are brought together in folding; the hollow between two such parts. ME.
A. Gray The thick woollen stockings..would not stay up but hung in folds round her ankles. G. Heyer Her crooked fingers worked amongst the folds of her silken skirt.
b. A leaf of a book; each side of a double door. Now chiefly, a layer or thickness of cloth etc. E16.
c. A coil of a serpent's body or of string etc. L16.
d. An undulation or gentle curve of the ground; a slight hill or hollow. M19.
H. Belloc That kind of landscape in which hills seem to lie in a regular manner, fold on fold, one range behind the other.
e. Geology. A bending or curvature in rock strata. M19.
The action of folding. Formerly also, an embrace. E17.
Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida And the weak wanton Cupid Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold.
b. A manner or way of folding paper etc. L19.
A line or crease made by folding. M19.
foldless adjective2 having no fold or crease M19.