FELL


Meaning of FELL in English

1. past of FALL v.2. v. & n.

--v.tr.

1. cut down (esp. a tree).

2 strike or knock down (a person or animal).

3 stitch down (the edge of a seam) to lie flat.

--n. an amount of timber cut.

Derivatives:

feller n.

Etymology: OE fellan f. Gmc, rel. to FALL 3. n. N.Engl.

1. a hill.

2 a stretch of hills or moorland.

Etymology: ME f. ON fjall, fell hill 4. adj. poet. or rhet.

1. fierce, ruthless.

2 terrible, destructive.

Phrases and idioms:

at (or in) one fell swoop in a single (orig. deadly) action.

Etymology: ME f. OF fel f. Rmc FELON(1) 5. n. an animal's hide or skin with its hair.

Etymology: OE fel, fell f. Gmc

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.