Fal

name, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    FN-FAL (the NATO standard rifle)
Verb
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of fall. alt-of, obsolete

    "By chaunce, in Livias modest company; / When, after the god-saving ceremony, / For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery; / Out goes his rapier, and to Livia / He shewes the ward by puncta reversa"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A river in Cornwall, England.

Synonyms

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fnfnfn falfn-fal

Example

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"By chaunce, in Livias modest company; / When, after the god-saving ceremony, / For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery; / Out goes his rapier, and to Livia / He shewes the ward by puncta reversa"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Initialism of Fusil Automatique Léger.

Etymology 2

Uncertain.

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