Hypertext Webster Gateway: "faller"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Faller \Fall"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, falls.

2. (Mach.) 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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

faller
n 1: a person works at lumbering and fells trees [syn: {lumberman},
{lumberjack}, {timberman}, {feller}]
2: a person who falls; "one of them was safe but they were
unable to save the faller"; "a faller among thieves"


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