fell
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
Etymology: From Middle English fellen, from Old English fellan, fiellan (“to cause to fall, strike down, fell, cut down, throw down, defeat, destroy, kill, tumble, cause to stumble”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallijan, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną (“to fell, to cause to fall”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂peh₃lH-.
Cognate with Dutch vellen (“to fell, cut down”), German fällen (“to fell”), Danish fælde (“to fell”), Norwegian felle (“to fell”).
Inflected forms:
form: fells
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: felling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: felled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: felled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fells
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: feller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fellest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more fell
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most fell
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Stand, or I'll fell thee down.
Sinclair opened Swansea's account from the spot on 8 minutes after a Ryan Shawcross tackle had felled Wayne Routledge.
As southeast Asia's forests were felled, the rhino's habitat shrank and became fragmented.
gloss: To strike down, kill, destroy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Gahan, horrified, saw the latter's head topple from its body, saw the body stagger and fall to the ground. ... The creature that had felled its companion was dashing madly in the direction of the hill upon which he was hidden, it dodged one of the workers that sought to seize it. … Then it was that Gahan's eyes chanced to return to the figure of the creature the fugitive had felled.
"Even in his most temperate moments he is constantly felling people with a hunting-crop."
… could make Ferré the first major fashion label felled by the economic crisis to come out the other end of restructuring.
This Sunday marks the debut of Weiner, a documentary that follows former congressman Anthony Weiner in his attempt to overcome a sexting scandal and run for mayor of New York City—only to be felled, somewhat inexplicably, by another sexting scandal.
gloss: To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
pos: verb
examples: To fell seam allowances, catch the lining underneath before emerging 1/4" (6mm) ahead, and 1/8" (3mm) to 1/4" (6mm) into the seam allowance.
gloss: A cutting-down of timber.
pos: noun
gloss: The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
pos: noun
gloss: The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
pos: noun
examples: Cut the first 2 warp ends in half and tie each pair together with an overhand knot, snug (but not tight) against the fell.
gloss: Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
pos: adj
examples: one fell swoop
[…]While we devise fell tortures for thy faults.
And many a serpent of fell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind
[…] but if it be solitary with the position of an incisor, will it even then bear out Professor Owen's hypothesis, that Thylacoleo, which he infers to have been one of “the fellest and most destructive of predatory beasts, […]
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
No words had been exchanged between Upjohn and self on the journey out, but the glimpses I had caught of his face from the corner of the eyes had told me that he was grim and resolute, his supply of the milk of human kindness plainly short by several gallons. No hope, it seemed to me, of turning him from his fell purpose.
gloss: Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
UK
dialectal
gloss: Very large; huge.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
UK
dialectal
gloss: Eager; earnest; intent.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: I am so fell to my business.
gloss: Sharply; fiercely.
pos: adv
Derived words: fellage
little strokes fell great oaks
overfell
unfelled
fell stitch
flat-fell seam
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