fell

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/fɛl/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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”).