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faller|ˈfɔːlə(r)|
[f. fall v. + -er1.]
1. One who falls, in various senses of the vb. Also with adv., as faller away, faller off, faller out.
c1440Promp. Parv. 147 Fallare, or he þat oftyn tyme fallythe, cadax. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 824 He was accounted..a faller off from y⊇ true Church of God. a1631Laud Serm. (1847) 13 Nor are we fallers out of the Church, but they fallers off from verity. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Rules for buying Horses, It's a true Mark of..a perpetual Faller. 1835Cobbett Legacy Parsons ii. 54 The disrespectful name of Dissenters; that is to say, fallers away from the true faith. 1890Pall Mall G. 22 Aug. 1/2 Six riders were brought to grief..Being experienced fallers, however, nothing more serious than bruises resulted. 1964Cath. Gaz. June 161/2 Most of the fallers out..tended to be..Catholics who were not deeply involved.
2. A feller of timber.
1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., The fallers bin on Esridge [Eastridge] coppy agen. 1905Terms Forestry & Logging 37 Faller, one who fells trees. 1908M. A. Grainger Woodsmen of West xiv. 84 The ‘fallers’ had worked along the slope. 1926K. S. Prichard Working Bullocks ii. 23 The faller, Bob Carew, who was giving a lift on the rake. 1941Time 11 Aug. 16/2 The faller (who chops and saws the tree). 1966Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 4 Feb. 17/6 Mr. Peterson is employed as a faller by Butler Brothers. 1971Timber Trades Jrnl. 14 Aug. 72 (Advt.), A gang of experienced fallers required for a parcel of beech and oak near Portsmouth.
3. The Hen-harrier (Circus cyaneus).
1885in Swainson Prov. Names Brit. Birds 132.
†4. A part of a mill for scouring clothes, etc.: (see quot.). Obs.
1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 107 There are Six or Eight Fallers (or Feet) which are taken and lifted up by the Axle⁓tree..and so fall down-right into a Box, or Chest, wherein the Cloth lyeth.
5. a. The name of various appliances in spinning machines. Also attrib.
1851L. D. B. Gordon Art Jrnl. Catal. Gt. Exhib. p. vi **/2 As the carriage approaches the roller-beam, the spinner gradually raises the faller-wire. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 396/1 Along the top of the spindles stretch two wires called the ‘fallers’.
b. A kind of stamp (see quots.).
a1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 326/1 Faller, a vertical stamp in a fulling, milling, or stamping machine; usually lifted by cams and allowed to drop vertically and endwise. Ibid., Faller Machine, a machine with vertical stamps or fallers, used in milling goods. |