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fells

fells is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fell.

fells is the plural of fell.

Meaning of fell

Verb

fell (third-person singular simple present fells, present participle felling, simple past and past participle felled)

  1. (transitive) To make something fall; especially a tree.
    • Stand, or I'll fell thee down.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. (transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.
    • Gahan, horrified, saw the latter's head topple from its body, saw the body stagger and fall to the ground. ... The creature that had felled its companion was dashing madly in the direction of the hill upon which he was hidden, it dodged one of the workers that sought to seize it. … Then it was that...1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010
  3. To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
    • To fell seam allowances, catch the lining underneath before emerging 1/4" (6mm) ahead, and 1/8" (3mm) to 1/4" (6mm) into the seam allowance.2006, Colette Wolff, The Art of Manipulating Fabric, page 296

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Proper noun capitalized: Fells

Fells (plural Fellses)

  1. A surname.

Forms of fells

pluralFellses

Origin of fells

Variant of Fell.

Phrases with fells

Questions about fells

What does fells mean?
Fells means a surname.
What is fells the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fells is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fell.
What part of speech is fells?
Fells is a proper noun.

Words near fells in the dictionary

  1. fellowshippers
  2. fellowshippes
  3. fellowshipping
  4. fellowships
  5. fellrunning
  6. fells
  7. Fellses
  8. fellside
  9. fellsides
  10. fellsman
  11. fellsmen

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