fell

Betekenis

Verb

1. To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
2. To strike down, kill, destroy.
3. To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.

Noun

1. A cutting-down of timber.
2. The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
3. The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

Noun

1. An animal skin, hide, pelt.
2. Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).

Noun

1. A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
2. A wild field or upland moor.

Adj

1. Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
2. Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent
3. Very large; huge.
4. (obsolete) Eager; earnest; intent.

Adv

Sharply; fiercely.

Noun

Anger; gall; melancholy.

Noun

The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/fɛl/

Etymologie

From Middle English fellen, from Old English fellan, fiellan (“to cause to fall, strike down, fell, cut down, throw down, defeat, destroy, kill, tumble, cause to stumble”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallijan, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną (“to fell, to cause to fall”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂peh₃lH-.
Cognate with Dutch vellen (“to fell, cut down”), German fällen (“to fell”), Danish fælde (“to fell”), Norwegian felle (“to fell”).