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feller

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who fells (trees, etc.)," c.1400, agent noun from fell (v.1). For the casual pronunciation of "fellow," see fella .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
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 ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feller \Fell"er\, n. One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman , lumberjack , faller ] 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 ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...

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.