faller

faller noun: one who falls.

Noun

faller (plural fallers)

One who falls.
- I've said that you girls on this side were not very whole-hearted fallers-in-love.1920, The Green Book Magazine, volume 23, page 75
- 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 […]2011, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon
A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
- 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.1867, The Penny Post, volume 17, page 17
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.
Synonym of feller (“one who cuts down trees”).
- Fallers can make a tree fall exactly where they plan.1909, Pamphlets on Conservation of Natural Resources, page 14
- A worker who assists fallers and/or sawyers in clearing away brush, limbs and small trees, […]2011, “Master the Firefighter Exam”, in Peterson's
Synonyms:

feller

Faller (plural Fallers)

From fall + -er.

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