faller
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
faller (plural fallers)
- One who falls.
- (engineering) A part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
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Etymology[edit]
From Old French faloir, from an earlier *falleir, from Latin fallō, fallere, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰwel- (“to lie, deceive”).
Verb[edit]
faller
- (impersonal) to be necessary
Swedish[edit]
Verb[edit]
faller
- present tense of falla.
