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▪ I. feller1|ˈfɛlə(r)|
[f. fell v. + -er1.]
One who or that which fells.
1. One who knocks down (a person). lit. and fig.
a1400Covt. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 159 Heyl! ffellere of the fende! c1611Chapman Iliad xv. 475 Whose fall when Meges view'd, He let fly at his feller's life.
2. One who cuts down (timber); a wood-cutter.
1466Mann. & Househ. Exp. 346 Item, to ij. fellers of tymbre..viij. d. 1553Act 7 Edw. VI, c. 7 §1 The Penalty..dependeth..not upon the..Feller of the same [Fuel]. 1650T. B. Worcester's Apoph. 80 The hatchet of one of the fellers chanc'd to strike out a chip. 17..E. Carter Lett. (1808) 410 The Hamadryads..will scream in the ears of the feller till he drops his axe. 1790Burns Ep. to R. Graham xiii, The rooted oaks would fly, Before th' approaching fellers. 1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX, Trees.. against which no feller has come up. [After Isa. xiv. 8.]
3. An attachment to a sewing machine for ‘felling’ (see fell v. 6).
1874in Knight Dict. Mech.
4. One who sews in various trades.
1894N. Brit. Daily Mail 5 Sept. 4 The wages of the fellers, whether on day work or on piece work, ranged from 1s 6d to 2s 6d. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §404 Finisher, tailor's finisher; feller; sews by hand, sleeve linings, vest arm holes. Ibid. §411 Feller, sews seams of gloves with a particular kind of felling stitch on treadle machine.
▪ II. feller2|ˈfɛlə(r)|
Vulgar or affected (cf. fella) form of fellow n. 9. Also in jocular phr. young feller-me-(or my-)lad, orig. used vocatively with an implication of disapproval or reproof; hence as compound n. designating a young man of a frivolous or irresponsible character; also (occas.) of women.
1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. i. 12 A lawyer..put Peters down for ‘a confounded smart feller’. 1849Thackeray Pendennis I. xxvi. 252 Mr. Pynsent, you're a good feller. 1880Punch 20 Nov. 234 Why, there was an Actor, by Jingo! and a scientific chap, and an artist feller. 1897Kipling Capt. Cour. 17 You've nigh slep' the clock around, young feller. 1909Wodehouse Swoop! vi. 86 Not so much of your eight hundred and seventy⁓five, young feller me lad. 1913L. A. Harker Ffolliots of Redmarley xxiv. 321, I beheld Miss Bax seemingly in difficulties with two young feller-me-lads, who evidently had no intention of going on. 1930D. H. Lawrence Nettles 23 She's a marv'lous, delicious, high-spirited feller. 1939J. Cary Mr. Johnson 154 All right, you remember that, young fellermelad. 1946K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) i. 17 A feller that's just risen from his bed of 'flu. 1971Petticoat 17 July 2/2 If we did walk into a pub alone and not one feller blinked an eyelid we'd probably think there was something wrong with us. |