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fell

1  [fel]
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–verb
pt. of fall.

fell

2  [fel]
–verb (used with object)
1. to knock, strike, shoot, or cut down; cause to fall: to fell a moose; to fell a tree.
2. Sewing. to finish (a seam) by sewing the edge down flat.
–noun
3. Lumbering. the amount of timber cut down in one season.
4. Sewing. a seam finished by felling.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME fellen, OE fellan, causative of feallan to fall; c. Goth falljan to cause to fall
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fell 1   (fěl)   
tr.v.   felled, fell·ing, fells

    1. To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down: fell a tree; fell an opponent in boxing.

    2. To kill: was felled by an assassin's bullet.

  2. To sew or finish (a seam) with the raw edges flattened, turned under, and stitched down.

n.  

  1. The timber cut down in one season.

  2. A felled seam.


[Middle English fellen, from Old English fellan, fyllan.]
fell'a·ble adj.
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Word Origin & History

fell  (v.)
O.E. fællan, (Mercian) fyllan (W.Saxon) "make fall," also "demolish, kill," from P.Gmc. *fallijanan (cf. O.N. fella, Du. fellen, O.H.G. fellan), causative of *fallan (O.E. feallan, see fall (v.)), showing i-mutation.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Felling

town, Gateshead metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It lies on the south bank of the River Tyne. The town grew rapidly at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century with the extension of coal mining and later with the expansion of riverside industries such as shipbuilding and the manufacture of glass and heavy chemicals. New light industries later offset declining employment in the traditional staple industries. Pop. (2001) 34,196.

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