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Faller vs Feller - What's the difference?

faller | feller |

Feller is a synonym of faller.



As nouns the difference between faller and feller

is that faller is one who falls while feller is a person who fells trees; a lumberjack.

As an adjective feller is

comparative of fell.

faller

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who falls.
  • An apple that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
  • (engineering) 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.

    • Derived terms

    * backfaller * counter-faller * off-faller

    Anagrams

    * ----

    feller

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who fells trees; a lumberjack
  • A machine for felling trees.
  • An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

    • Etymology 2

    Variant of fellow'' which reflects the reduction of the last vowel to a schwa and its conflation with the endings ''-er''/''-ar . Dictionary.com

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
    • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
    Derived terms
    * blackfeller * whitefeller

    See also

    * fellow, fellar, fella, fellah

    References

    Etymology 3

    The adjective fell'' + ''-er .

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (archaic) (fell)

    • Anagrams

    * ----