1.
[syn: lumberman, lumberjack, logger, feller, faller]
2. a person who falls;
- Example: "one of them was safe but they were unable to save the faller"
- Example: "a faller among thieves"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Faller \Fall"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, falls.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Mach.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a
fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to
arrest motion when a thread breaks.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
faller
n 1: a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack,
logger, feller, faller]
2: a person who falls; "one of them was safe but they were
unable to save the faller"; "a faller among thieves"