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FALLER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who falls
Example:
a faller among thieves
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("faller" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Derivation:
fall (descend in free fall under the influence of gravity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who fells trees
Synonyms:
faller; feller; logger; lumberjack; lumberman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("faller" is a kind of...):
jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "faller"):
scorer (a logger who marks trees to be felled)
Instance hyponyms:
Bunyan; Paul Bunyan (a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada)
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