FELL Word Analysis

(transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.

(transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.

(sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.

A cutting-down of timber.

The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.

(textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

An animal skin, hide, pelt.

Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).

(archaic outside Northern England, Scotland) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia.

(archaic outside Northern England, Scotland) A wild field or upland moor.

Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.

(UK dialectal, Scotland) Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent

(UK dialectal, Scotland) Very large; huge.

(obsolete) Eager; earnest; intent.

Sharply; fiercely.

(obsolete, rare) Anger; gall; melancholy.

(mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

simple past of fall

(now colloquial) past participle of fall