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Faller

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. One who cuts down trees; a lumberjack or feller.

n. A machine part or device that operates by falling.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. One who falls.

n. 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.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who, or that which, falls.

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

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who or that which falls or causes to fall.

n. Specifically, in machinery: In cotton manufacturing, one of the small arms on a mule-carriage which bears the faller-wire.

n. In a fulling-, milling-, or stamping-machine, a stamp which is generally raised by the cams, and then falls vertically and endwise.

n. In flax-manuf., a bar in the spreading-machine having numerous vertical needles forming a comb or gills; a gill-bar. It detains the line somewhat as it passes the drawing-roller.

n. In silk-manuf. See faller-wire, 2.

n. The hen-harrier

n. In lumbering, one who fells trees.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a person who fells trees

n. a person who falls

Word Usage

"The biggest faller is the United States, dropping from first to sixth."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

person mortal individual someone soul

Form

backfaller off-faller counter-faller

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Montrealer Waller aller baller caller

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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