Definitions for FELL
fɛlfell

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. hide, fellnoun

   the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

2. fell, felled seamnoun

   seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges

3. felladjective

   the act of felling something (as a tree)

4. barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, viciousverb

   (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

   "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"

5. fell, drop, strike down, cut downverb

   cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow

   "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers"

6. fly, fell, vanishverb

   pass away rapidly

   "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him"

7. fellverb

   sew a seam by folding the edges

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FELLadjective

   Etymology: felle, Saxon.

   1. Cruel; barbarous; inhuman.

   It seemed fury, discord, madness fell,
   Flew from his lap when he unfolds the same. Edward Fairfax, b. ii.

   So fellest foes,
   Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep,
   To take the one the other, by some chance,
   Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends. William Shakespeare.

   That instant was I turn’d into a hart,
   And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
   E’er since pursue me. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

   2. Savage; ravenous; bloody.

   I know thee, love! wild as the raging main,
   More fell than tygers on the Lybian plain. Alexander Pope, Autumn.

   Scorning all the taming arts of man,
   The keen hyena, fellest of the fell. James Thomson, Spring.

2. Fellnoun

   The skin; the hide.

   Etymology: felle, Saxon.

   Wipe thine eye;
   The goujers shall devour them, flesh and fell,
   Ere they shall make us weep. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   The time has been my senses would have cool’d
   To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair
   Would at a dismal treatise rouze and stir. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

3. Fellthe preterite of to fall.

   None on their feet might stand,
   Though standing else as rocks; but down they fell
   By thousands, angel on archangel roll’d. John Milton.

4. To Fellverb

   Etymology: fellen, German.

   1. To knock down; to bring to the ground.

   Villain, stand, or I’ll fell thee down. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

   Up and down he traverses his ground;
   Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again. Daniel.

   Taking the small end of his musket in his hand, he struck him on the head with the stock, and felled him. Walter Raleigh.

   His fall, for the present, struck an earthquake into all minds; nor could the vulgar be induced to believe he was felled. James Howell, Vocal Forrest.

   On their whole host I flew
   Unarm’d, and with a trivial weapon fell’d
   Their choicest youth: they only liv’d who fled. John Milton, Agon.

   Whom with such force he struck he fell’d him down,
   And cleft the circle of his golden crown. Dryden.

   I fell’d along a man of bearded face,
   His limbs all cover’d with a shining case. John Dryden, Ind. Emp.

   2. To hew down; to cut down.

   Then would he seem a farmer that would sell
   Bargains of woods, which he did lately fell. Hubb. Tale.

   Proud Arcite and fierce Palamon,
   In mortal battle, doubling blow on blow;
   Like lightning flam’d their fauchions to and fro,
   And shot a dreadful gleam; so strong they struck,
   There seem’d less force requir’d to fell an oak. Dryden.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fell

   A fell (from Old Norse fell, fjall, "mountain") is a high and barren landscape feature, such as a mountain or moor-covered hill. The term is most often employed in Fennoscandia, Iceland, the Isle of Man, parts of northern England, and Scotland.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fell

   Fell is a verb that means to cut down or cause to fall, usually in reference to trees or objects. It can also refer to physically tripping or stumbling and coming to the ground unintentionally.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fell

   of Fall

2. Fell

   imp. of Fall

3. Felladjective

   cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous

4. Felladjective

   eager; earnest; intent

5. Felladjective

   gall; anger; melancholy

6. Fellnoun

   a skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell

7. Fellnoun

   a barren or rocky hill

8. Fellnoun

   a wild field; a moor

9. Fellverb

   to cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down

10. Fellnoun

    the finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting

11. Fellverb

    to sew or hem; -- said of seams

12. Fellnoun

    a form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses

13. Fellnoun

    the end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft

14. Etymology: [OE. fel, OF. fel cruel, fierce, perfidious; cf. AS. fel (only in comp.) OF. fel, as a noun also accus. felon, is fr. LL. felo, of unknown origin; cf. Arm fall evil, Ir. feal, Arm. falloni treachery, Ir. & Gael. feall to betray; or cf. OHG. fillan to flay, torment, akin to E. fell skin. Cf. Felon.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fell

   A fell is a high and barren landscape feature, such as a mountain range or moor-covered hills. The term is most often employed in Scandinavia, the Isle of Man, parts of northern England, and Scotland.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fell

   fel, n. a barren hill. [Ice. fjall; Dan. fjeld.]

2. Fell

   fel, pa.t. of Fall.

3. Fell

   fel, v.t. to cause to fall: to bring to the ground: to cut down.—adj. Fell′able.—n. Fell′er, a cutter of wood. [A.S. fellan, causal form of feallan, to fall.]

4. Fell

   fel, n. a skin.—n. Fell′monger, a dealer in skins. [A.S. fel; cf. L. pellis, Gr. pella, Ger. fell.]

5. Fell

   fel, n. (Spens.) anger, melancholy. [L. fel, bile.]

6. Fell

   fel, adj. cruel: fierce: bloody: deadly: keen, eager, spirited: (Scot.) very great, huge.—adj. Fell′-lurking (Shak.), lurking with treacherous purpose.—n. Fell′ness.—adv. Fell′y. [O. Fr. fel, cruel—L. fello. See Felon.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FELL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fell is ranked #5414 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Fell surname appeared 6,429 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Fell.
   
   92.2% or 5,930 total occurrences were White.
   3.5% or 227 total occurrences were Black.
   2.2% or 147 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.2% or 81 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.4% or 28 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.2% or 16 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Animal Skin
   • Elapse
   • Sew

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'FELL' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #972

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'FELL' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1572

How to pronounce FELL?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of FELL in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of FELL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of FELL in a Sentence

1. Van Valkenburgh:

   My biggest fear is he had drowned, i was afraid if he fell into the water he wouldn't have the strength in his legs to pull himself out.

2. Chief Justice John Roberts:

   It fell to Hughes.

3. Tamara Duker Freuman:

   I started noticing a common pattern where my patients were so good with restricting their calories during the day, but in the late afternoon and evening, they fell apart.

4. The Atlantic City boy:

   I pulled out my late slip and that’s when the item fell out of my pocket and a teacher had seen it.

5. Jimmy Carter:

   I fell down and hit my forehead on a sharp edge and had to go to the hospital. And they took 14 stitches in my forehead and my eye is black, as Deanna Congileo've noticed. But I had a number one priority and that was to come to Nashville and build houses.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=FELL
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=FELL
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fell
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/FELL
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=FELL
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=FELL
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html