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[edit] Etymology 1

Old English fellan

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Infinitive
to fell

Third person singular
fells

Simple past
felled

Past participle
felled

Present participle
felling

to fell (third-person singular simple present fells, present participle felling, simple past and past participle felled)

  1. (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
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fell

  1. Simple past of fall.

[edit] Etymology 2

Middle English fell "hide, skin, fell" from Old English fell "hide, skin, pelt".

The fell, or stitched down portion of a kilt

[edit] Noun

Singular
fell

Plural
fells

fell (plural fells)

  1. That portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down
  2. An animal skin, hide
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[edit] Etymology 3

Via Middle English from Old Norse fell

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Singular
fell

Plural
fells

fell (plural fells)

  1. A rocky ridge or chain of mountains. (archaic or British English)
  2. A wild field or upland moor (archaic or British English)
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[edit] Etymology 4

Middle English fel from Old English fel, felo, fæle "cruel, savage, fierce", Old English ealfelu "all-fell, extremely baleful, dire". Cf Old French fel "wicked", from the same Germanic source. More at felon

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fell (comparative feller, superlative fellest)

  1. (archaic) fierce, savage (e.g., one fell swoop)
  2. (Scot) Pungent.
  3. Having an extremely cruel or irrational trait

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Old Norse

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fell n.

  1. hill

[edit] Old English

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Proto-Germanic *fellam, whence also Old High Germanic vel

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fell n

  1. fell
  2. skin