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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
feller
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
young
▪ A great place for young fellers to go after they come out of the pub and there was always trouble there.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I only pinched one feller for bribery because he was a nasty feller.
▪ So I whispered to Mowat to collar the other feller.
▪ That bloody awful feller she's with.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feller

Feller \Fell"er\, n. One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.

Feller

Feller \Fell"er\, n. An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
feller

"one who fells (trees, etc.)," c.1400, agent noun from fell (v.1). For the casual pronunciation of "fellow," see fella.

Wiktionary
feller

Etymology 1 n. 1 A person who fells trees; a lumberjack 2 A machine for felling trees. 3 An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam. Etymology 2

n. (eye dialect of fellow English) Etymology 3

a. (context archaic English) (en-comparative of: fell)

WordNet
feller
  1. n. a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack, faller]

  2. a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss" [syn: chap, fellow, lad, gent, fella, blighter, cuss]

Wikipedia
Feller

Feller or Fellers may refer to:

  • Feller (surname), a list of people with the surname Feller or de Feller
  • Fellers (surname), a list of people
  • another name for a lumberjack
  • Feller College, a former boarding school in Quebec, Canada
  • Feller Bach, a tributary of the Moselle River in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • Fellers (1930 film), an Australian comedy
Feller (disambiguation)
Feller (surname)

Feller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Anke Feller (born 1971), German retired sprinter
  • Bob Feller (1918–2010), American former Major League Baseball pitcher and Hall of Famer
  • Catherine Feller (born 1939), British actress and educator
  • Dick Feller (born 1943), American country musician and songwriter
  • Eugen Viktor Feller (1871–1936), Croatian pharmacist and entrepreneur, father of William Feller
  • François-Xavier de Feller (1735-1802), Belgian writer
  • Frank Feller (1848-1908), Swiss illustrator and painter
  • Georg-Wolfgang Feller (1915-1991), German World War II naval officer, last soldier awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
  • Harald Feller (1913-2003), Swiss diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust
  • Harald Feller (organist), (born 1951), German organist, choral conductor and composer
  • James Happy Feller (born 1949), American former National Football League kicker
  • Joachim Feller (1638-1691), German professor at the University of Leipzig
  • Jules Feller (1859-1940), Belgian linguist and Walloon militant
  • Karl Feller, American trade unionist
  • Peter Feller (c. 1920-1998), Tony Award-winning American theatrical set builder
  • Sébastien Feller (born 1991), French chess Grandmaster suspended from competition for cheating
  • Sherm Feller (1918-1994), American musical composer, radio personality and longtime public address announcer for the Boston Red Sox baseball team
  • Sid Feller (1916-2006), American musical conductor
  • William Feller (1906-1970), Croatian-American mathematician

Usage examples of "feller".

Cawcaw fishes when the feller which is skiping gets a bite he lets him have it a minit and the feller whitch is padling the bote padles towards the shore and then the feller whitch is skiping gumps rite out as soon as the water aint over his head and gives a big yank, and the pikeril goes saling into the field.

Staring at the ghosty face mooning around in the dark current, and the hair streaming like gray weed, so old and sad, that little feller bust down in tears.

Then the feller went over and give the little paper to the jedge, and the jedge he took it and he said he would decide in the mornin.

Bill he said he wood leeve his door open jest a little and old printer Smith he said he wood leeve his open jest a little two so he cood gump out and lam time out of the feller whitch rung his bell.

Beany and Fatty and Nibby and Lees Moses and Whacker went home by the libary building, when the girls came out they dident pay enny attension to us becaus the high school fellers was there.

I riz up with a rock in my hand and bounced it offa the head of a feller which was fixing to shoot me, and he dropped his pistol and fell on top of it.

Marghe wondered whether the tree fellers had used axes with stone or olla blades.

He could only get into us oncet, Abe, so go right over there and see Linkheimer, and if in writing he would give us a guaranty the feller is honest, go ahead and hire him.

You could never make no big success in business unless you got a little sympathy for a feller oncet in a while.

It never harms in business, Shapolnik, that a feller should throw sometimes, oncet in a while, a little bluff.

But, Law bless you, I promise you, he punished my champagne, and had a party ere every night--reglar tip-top swells, down from the clubs and the West End--Capting Ragg, the Honorable Deuceace, who lives in the Temple, and some fellers as knows a good glass of wine, I warrant you.

Mary Straton whose father chased me and Beany when we broke the gaslite, can run faster then enny of the fellers xcept Tomtit and Arthur Francis.

I seen a feller crouching clost to a side winder peeking through a hole in the wall.

I was doing this, the feller inside hollered and jumped out the winder, and Glanton grabbed him by the neck and taken his gun away from him.

They was fellers holding torches outside, and the light come in at the winder so I could see it was a good strong jail.