faller

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: 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.

1. One who falls.

   “I've said that you girls on this side were not very whole-hearted fallers-in-love.”

   “Most trippers and fallers I know fall forward, but it could have happened. He could have gone out for a midnight walk, he could have wanted to commune with the moon from the middle of the log, he could have tripped and fallen backward […]”

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.”

   “A worker who assists fallers and/or sawyers in clearing away brush, limbs and small trees, […]”