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Feller

adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    comparative form of fell: more fell archaic, comparative, form-of
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A person who fells trees; a lumberjack
  2. 2
    Nonstandard form of fellow. alt-of, nonstandard

    "There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […]”"

  3. 3
    a boy or man wordnet
  4. 4
    A machine for felling trees.
  5. 5
    a person who fells trees wordnet
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  1. 6
    A person who fells a seam.
  2. 7
    An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English fellere, feller; equivalent to fell + -er.

Etymology 2

Variant of fellow that reflects the reduction of the last vowel to a schwa and its conflation with the endings -er/-ar.

Etymology 3

From fell + -er.

Etymology 4

Likely an occupational surname from English feller (“one who fells trees; a lumberjack”).

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