fallers

Noun

faller (plural fallers)

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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.
4. 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

   Synonyms:

   feller

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