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faller
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun faller has 2 senses
- faller(n = noun.person) feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman - a person who fells trees; Array has particulars: scorer
- faller(n = noun.person) Array - a person who falls; "one of them was safe but they were unable to save the faller"; "a faller among thieves" is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
is a kind of jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer
Derived form verb fall1
CIDE DICTIONARY
faller, n.
- One who, or that which, falls. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
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