faller

See also: Faller, and fäller

English

Etymology

fall +‎ -er

Noun

faller (plural fallers)

1. One who falls.
   • 1920, The Green Book Magazine (volume 23, page 75)

     I've said that you girls on this side were not very whole-hearted fallers-in-love.

   • 2011, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon

     Most trippers and fallers I know fall forward, but it could have happened. He could have gone out for a midnight walk, he could have wanted to commune with the moon from the middle of the log, he could have tripped and fallen backward […]

   • 2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury

     Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.

2. A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
3. (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.

Derived terms

• backfaller
• counter-faller
• off-faller

Anagrams

• Lafler, fellar, refall

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Catalan

Adjective

faller (feminine fallera, masculine plural fallers, feminine plural falleres)

1. Of or relating to The Falles

Noun

faller m (plural fallers)

1. Someone taking part in The Falles

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Norman

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French faloir, from an earlier *falleir, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fallō, fallere, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *gʰwel- (“to lie, deceive”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

faller

1. (Jersey, impersonal) to be necessary

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

faller

1. present tense of falle

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Verb

faller

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of falla.