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A person works at lumbering and fells trees
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faller
Word definitions for faller in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Faller \Fall"er\, n. One who, or that which, falls. (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.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Faller (styled as FALLER) is a German toy company founded in Stuttgart in 1946 by brothers Edwin and Hermann Faller. The company later relocated to the brothers' home town of Gütenbach in the Black Forest . Faller now specializes in making scenery, plastic ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman , lumberjack , feller ] a person who falls; "one of them was safe but they were unable to save the faller"; "a faller among thieves"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who falls. 2 An apple that falls from the tree, rather than being picked. 3 (context engineering English) 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.
Usage examples of faller.
Land Rovers screaming around the desert, men in black kit abseiling down embassy walls, or free fallers with all the kit on, leaping into the night.
He and another guard named Marvin Meriwether who had been a faller like Tom for seven years and who had worked another seven as a millwright took the 4 a.
The storm had broken the fourth day out and the captain had made for the nearest port, the harbor Fallers at the far southern tip of Elsendor.
One of the free fallers, an obese woman, maneuvered toward the window.
It was the recently press-ganged who were most vociferous about that, Dry Fallers pointed out—superstitious outsiders who had not yet learned Armadan ways.