Meaning

4 senses

  1. One who falls.

    a person who falls

  2. A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.

  3. A part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.

  4. Synonym of feller (“one who cuts down trees”).

    a person who fells trees

Forms

plural: fallers
Singularfaller
Pluralfallers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
feller
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words
Relatedfall
Derivedcounterfallerfreefallerinfaller

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fallA2fallacyC2falliblefalloutfallow

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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