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faller

See also: Faller and fäller

English

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Etymology

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From fall +‎ -er.

Noun

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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.
    • 1867, The Penny Post, volume 17, page 17:
      There were peas to be gathered and shelled, currants and gooseberries to be picked, and when the apple season came, she had to go round the orchard several times a-day to pick up the fallers.
  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

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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From Falles +‎ -er.

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Adjective

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

  1. (relational) of the Falles

Noun

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faller m (plural fallers)

  1. someone taking part in the Falles

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Norman

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Etymology

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

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  • Audio (Jersey):(file)

Verb

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faller

  1. (Jersey, impersonal) to be necessary

Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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faller

  1. present tense of falle

Swedish

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Verb

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faller

  1. present indicative of falla
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