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FELLER
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Irregular inflected form: feller
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A boy or man
Example:
he's a good bloke
Synonyms:
blighter; bloke; chap; cuss; fella; feller; fellow; gent; lad
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("feller" is a kind of...):
male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feller"):
dog (informal term for a man)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who fells trees
Synonyms:
faller; feller; logger; lumberjack; lumberman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("feller" 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 "feller"):
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)
Derivation:
fell (cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow)
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