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feller

feller noun: a person who fells trees; a lumberjack. Also the nonstandard form of fellow.

Noun

feller (plural fellers)

  1. A person who fells trees; a lumberjack
  2. A machine for felling trees.
  3. A person who fells a seam.
  4. An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

Proper noun capitalized: Feller

Feller (plural Fellers)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

feller is also the nonstandard form of fellow.

feller is also the comparative form of fell.

Forms of feller

Noun
pluralfellers
Proper noun
pluralFellers

Origin of feller

From Middle English fellere, feller; equivalent to fell + -er.

Variant of fellow that reflects the reduction of the last vowel to a schwa and its conflation with the endings -er/-ar.

From fell + -er.

Words formed from feller

Phrases with feller

Questions about feller

What does feller mean?
Feller means a person who fells trees; a lumberjack.
What part of speech is feller?
Feller can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of feller?
The plural of feller is fellers.

Words near feller in the dictionary

  1. fellatrixes
  2. felled
  3. felled seam
  4. Fellenz
  5. Fellenzes
  6. feller
  7. feller buncher
  8. feller bunchers
  9. feller-buncher
  10. feller-bunchers
  11. feller-me-lad

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: feller (page history and authors); Feller (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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