faller

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who falls.
    — I've said that you girls on this side were not very whole-hearted fallers-in-love.
  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.
  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.

词形变化

fallers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
backfaller counterfaller freefaller infaller off-faller

词源

Etymology tree
English fall
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English faller
From fall + -er.
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