To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
Stand, or I'll fell thee down.
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 Gahan's eyes chanced to return to the figure of the creature the fugitive had felled.
simple past of fall
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.
An animal skin, hide, pelt.
Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
one fell swoop
Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent
A surname.
A township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A municipality in Trier-Saarland district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
From Middle English fellen, from Old English fellan, fiellan (“to cause to fall, strike down, fell, cut down, throw down, defeat, destroy, kill, tumble, cause to stumble”), from Proto-West Germanic *f...
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Why, we are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy.
Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
For he is fader of feith · fourmed ȝow alle / Bothe with fel and with face.
High and barren landscape feature such as a mountain range or mountain terrain above the tree line.
A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia.
Every now and then the sea calls some farmer or shepherd, and the restless drop in his veins gives him no peace till he has found his way over the hills and fells to the port of Whitehaven, and gone back to the cradling bosom that rocked his ancestors.
Anger; gall; melancholy.
Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell.
The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
Very large; huge.