faller

English

noun
Definitions
  • One who fallfalls.
  • A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
  • (engineering) A part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.

Etymology

Suffix from English fall.

Origin

English

fall

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