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. Maggie Murdaugh:

   She just fell back down. Can I get off the phone so I can go down there?

2. Carl Lipo:

   But under the conditions of warfare, weapons are going to have performance characteristics. And they're going to be very carefully fashioned for that purpose because it matters... You would cut somebody [ with a mata'a ], but they certainly wouldn't be lethal in any way. Related : Ancient Roman brooch contains' lovely' palindrome Some scientists have estimated, that, at its height, Easter Island’s population may have been as high as 20,000, but fell over centuries after the island’s trees and palms were cut down to build canoes and transport its famous giant statues. One theory suggests that the deforestation led to soil erosion, impacting the island’s ability to support wildlife and farming, and the collapse of its civilization. When the Dutch arrived at the island in 1722, its population was 3,000 or less. Only 111 inhabitants were living on Easter Island by 1877. Other experts, however, have questioned whether Easter Island ever supported a large population, citing instead the arrival of Europeans, who brought diseases and took islanders away as slaves. Related : Ancient 4,500-year-old boat discovered in Egypt What people traditionally think about Easter Island is being this island of catastrophe and collapse just isn't true in a pre-historic sense, populations were successful and lived sustainably on Easter Island up until European contact.

3. Amal Ahmed:

   I was in the garden and a rocket hit and the shrapnel sliced me open, something fell out of me and I grabbed it and I put it back in and I lay down.

4. Janet Yellen:

   Well before Covid-19 infected a single American, we were living in a K-shaped economy, one where wealth built on wealth while working families fell further and further behind.

5. Carolyn Potter:

   She has described just the horror of all of it, and then, when she was able to leave the family home and felt like her siblings were safe... she ended up being trafficked as an adult and fell right back into it.

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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