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faller^¹

noun fallers

One who falls. I've said that you girls on this side were not very whole-hearted fallers-in-love.
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.
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.
Synonym of feller (“one who cuts down trees”). Fallers can make a tree fall exactly where they plan.
Similar: feller

Faller^²

proper noun Fallers

A surname.

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@misc{faller_2026,
  title = {faller},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/faller},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}