faller
See also: Faller and fäller
English
Etymology
fall + -er
Noun
faller (plural fallers)
- 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.
- 1920, The Green Book Magazine (volume 23, page 75)
- A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
- (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
Catalan
Adjective
faller (feminine fallera, masculine plural fallers, feminine plural falleres)
- Of or relating to The Falles
Noun
faller m (plural fallers)
- Someone taking part in The Falles
Norman
Etymology
From Old French faloir, from an earlier *falleir, from Latin fallō, fallere, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰwel- (“to lie, deceive”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
faller
- (Jersey, impersonal) to be necessary
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
faller
- present tense of falle
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
faller
- present tense of falla.