fell
Pronunciation: /fɛl/
The English word “fell” has 18 meanings listed here.
verb
noun
- A cutting-down of timber.
- 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.
- The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
- Skin, hide, pelt.
- A covering of hair, wool, etc., especially when matted or thick; a fleece; also (chiefly in fell of hair), a thick head or mass of hair.
- High and barren landscape feature such as a mountain range or mountain terrain above the tree line.
- A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia.
- A wild field or upland moor.
- Anger; gall; melancholy.
- The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
adjective
adverb
Etymology
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…
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