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filling (adj.)
"calculated to fill or satisfy," 1620s, present-participle adjective from
fill
(v.).
filling (n.)
c. 1400, "that which fills or fills up," verbal noun from
fill
(v.). Dentistry sense is from 1848.
Filling station
attested by 1915.