单词 | faller |
释义 | fallern. 1. a. A person who or thing which falls (in various senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > falling down or from erect position (animates) > one who faller1440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 147 Fallare, or he þat oftyn tyme fallythe, cadax. c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 167 (MED) Þe faller schal myche þe sunner be disposid to falle into deedly synne. ?1575 tr. H. Niclaes Epistolæ xv. ii. 299 Therfore can no outlandish Men, nor any Estraingedones or Fallers from the Seruice of Loue, iudg vs. a1626 A. Lake 10 Serm. (1640) 159 They are no standers, but fallers. a1637 G. Markham Compl. Farriar (1639) i. xiii. 107 If they have scarres, or haire broken, it is a true marke of a stumbling jade, and a perpetuall faller. 1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake 39 Enforming so the half dead fallers Ear What he must suffer..When, at the very first befriending knock, His trembling brains smear'd the Tarpeian Rock. 1872 Times 22 Mar. 12/3 [The winning horse]..won very easily by six lengths... There were many fallers and some accidents. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Aug. 1/2 Six riders were brought to grief..Being experienced fallers, however, nothing more serious than bruises resulted. 1928 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 33 907 Persons who are not social climbers or social fallers get adjusted to certain standards of living. 1994 Sporting Life 28 Oct. 11/7 The horse was badly hampered by fallers at the first flight and nearly came down. 2008 Brandon (Manitoba) Sun 16 Feb. (Lifestyles section) c4/6 Safety harnesses kept fallers dangling harmlessly in the air, instead of crashing. b. Stock Market (chiefly British). A company, industry, etc., whose shares have decreased in price or value on the stock market. Cf. riser n. 15. ΚΠ 1965 Statist 24 Dec. 1675/3 Breweries and gold shares are two of the three largest fallers. 1998 Daily Tel. 30 Dec. 26/1 Oil giant British Petroleum..was..one of the few fallers of the day. 2016 Times (Nexis) 12 Jan. 47 There was no breather for Sports Direct, which again was among the biggest fallers on the FTSE 100. 2. a. A falling hammer or stamp in a machine, spec. (in fulling) a hammer that drops repeatedly on to wool or other cloth immersed in water in order to clean it. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > cleaning > equipment for > part of faller1523 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xl. f. lv One whele is able to driue two stockes, that is to say, bothe a potyer and a faller, the faller bothe to scoure and herely, and the potyere to thicke the clothe. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 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. 1810 Leeds Mercury 27 Jan. The Upper Mill is employed as a Fulling-Mill; and has Two Water Wheels, Four Drivers, or Pushing Stocks, and Six Fallers, all in good Condition. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. 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. 1960 U.S. Patent 2,951,276 1 In the fulling and felting of textile materials, which are conveyed between the lines of rollers in a rotary fulling mill or between the swinging fallers of fulling stocks, the textile goods have to be conveyed through the machines several times. b. In a spinning machine: a wire used to guide yarn onto a spindle (more fully faller wire). Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > machine > types of > parts of mendoza1803 faller1807 headstock1825 rim wheel1827 traveller1830 ring spindle1837 carrying comb1844 whirler1860 coiler1873 breaking-frame1875 nosing motion1883 tube1884 weigh-box1884 check-band1892 presser eye1892 thread-board1892 1807 Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. 10 90 V the cylindrical roller..raises and falls the fallers and holders, so as to distribute the yarn upon the bobbins from top to bottom. 1851 L. D. B. Gordon in Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. vi **/2 As the carriage approaches the roller-beam, the spinner gradually raises the faller-wire. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 396/1 Along the top of the spindles stretch two wires called the ‘fallers’. 1922 Textile World 9 Dec. 39/2 Sets of the mechanisms are threaded at suitable intervals on the winding faller shaft throughout the length of the mule carriage. 1990 W. Lazonick Competitive Advantage on Shop Floor i. iii. 83 The operative had to control the ‘faller,’ a wire that stretched the length of the mule and guided the strands of spun yarn onto the spindle. 3. A person who fells trees, esp. as an occupation. Cf. fall v. 29a and also feller n.1 2. Chiefly Australian, Canadian, and U.S. regional (north-western) in later use.Sometimes with preceding word, as timber-faller, wood-faller. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman wood-hewerc1000 wooderc1050 hagger1294 wood-hagger1294 feller1422 woodman1426 faller1614 wood-maker1616 forest-feller1618 axeman1671 holt-felstera1678 stocker1686 bayman1715 logger1734 wood-cutter1758 lumberer1809 lumbermana1817 shantyman1824 chopper1827 splitter1841 bushman1846 mahogany cutter1850 piner1871 bush-faller1882 lumberjack1888 bushwhacker1898 home guard1903 Jack1910 gyppo1912 timber-getter1912 timberjack1916 timber beast1919 1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman ii. ii. 55 You shall giue direction to your wood fallers, that when they shall meete with any faire and straight well growne sapling, Oake, Elme, Ash, or such like, to preserue them. 1793 D. Collins Acct. Eng. Colony New S. Wales (1798) I. 331 To each [timber] carriage were annexed two fallers and one overseer. 1861 London Gaz. 31 May 2345/1 The petition of Joseph Price, of Lowermarsh, Leominster,..timber dealer, timber measurer, sawyer, timber faller, and dealer in timber by commission. 1862 Once a Week 4 Jan. 49/2 He, with his assistant, the ‘feller’, or as he is usually called the ‘faller’, make their way to the place. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word) The fallers bin on Esridge [i.e. Eastridge] coppy agen. 1891 McKean Democrat (Smethport, Pa.) 15 May It [sc. a tree] leans downhill..and the top's gone over a foot since week before last. Get some timber-fallers to look at it. 1908 M. A. Grainger Woodsmen of West xiv. 84 The ‘fallers’ had worked along the slope. 1926 K. S. Prichard Working Bullocks ii. 23 The faller, Bob Carew, who was giving a lift on the rake. 1966 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 Feb. 17/6 Mr. Peterson is employed as a faller by Butler Brothers. 1971 Timber Trades Jrnl. 14 Aug. 72 (advt.) A gang of experienced fallers required for a parcel of beech and oak near Portsmouth. 2001 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 23 Nov. c2 An admission that the high number of logging accidents are in the nature of the job and not the fault of fallers. 2015 Joondalup (W. Austral.) Times (Nexis) 16 Apr. 44 He worked in the timber industry as a faller, log hauler and log inspector. 4. English regional. The hen harrier, Circus cyaneus. rare. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Circus (harrier) > circus cynaeus (hen-harrier) St Martin's fowl?a1513 hen harrier1544 grey falcon1678 faller1848 rabbit-hawk1851 miller1885 St Martin's bird1894 1848 Zoologist 6 2290 The hen harrier is called a ‘faller’ [in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire]. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 132. Various names [for the hen harrier]. Faller. Katabella (Orkney Isles). Dove hawk. 2001 R. Hull Sc. Birds 137 Flapper and Faller relate to the typical flight of harriers as a whole. Compounds With adverbs, forming compound agent nouns corresponding to adverbial combinations of fall, as faller-away, faller-back, faller-in, faller-off, faller-out. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > [noun] > person apostate1340 postatea1387 relapse1407 pervert1501 reneganta1525 runagate1530 reniant1532 backfaller1545 apostatrice1551 turn-tippet?1556 runaway1561 faller-away1564 reneger?1577 renegado1584 backslider1591 retrospicientc1600 relapser1608 renegade1611 runagado1614 runagade1670 fallaway1673 lapser1695 faller-out1964 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [noun] > desertion of one's party or principles > one who renay1340 apostate1362 renegatec1450 starter1519 reniant1532 changeling1539 rannigala1560 recreant1570 turncoat1570 renegado1573 start-away1574 off-faller?1575 start-back1579 departer1586 reneger1597 retrospicientc1600 runagadea1604 renegade1611 turn-tail1621 runagado1623 trip-coata1625 retrogredient1650 retrograde1651 tergiversator1716 rat1755 ratter1819 tergiversant1833 blackleg1844 strike-breaker1904 faller-out1964 1564 tr. P. M. Vermigli Most Fruitfull & Learned Comm. i. f. 42v After that saying aforesaid of the Deacon..fallers away, & such as wer put to repentance went their way. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. III. v. i. sig. Aaaa.viij/1 He was accounted..a faller off from the true Church of God. 1588 King James VI & I Fruitfull Medit. iii. sig. B.ijv Yis tyrannie of ye Antichrist..sall tend to ye double condemnatioun of ye falleris bak, and to ye double croun of glorie to ye perseueireris. 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra (Job i. 20) 14 The ancient Prophets and holy men were called Nephalim procidentes, or Prostrantes, that is prostrates or Fallers downe, because in their worship they usually fell down upon the earth. 1749 A. Hill Gideon (rev. ed.) i. 52 Lord Roscommon, one of the first Fallers in with the Applause of Milton. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 243 After separating from the holy Mother Church, the fallers-off became again split and divided amongst themselves! 1895 G. Eyre-Todd Anne of Argyle vii. 102 When he that should be leader to the host is himself a faller-away from the ordinances. 1905 Improvem. Era Nov. 15 It seems to me that you, with your claims—with your pretensions to the true gospel of Christ and the perfect philosophy of religion—have no excuse to offer for fallers-away. 1964 Catholic Gaz. June 161/2 Most of the fallers out..tended to be..Catholics who were not deeply involved. 1976 J. House Pride of Perth x. 128 The original faller-in was rescued, and the rescuer had to be pulled out of the mud. 1993 S. Middleton Married past Redemption xv. 185 ‘Back in line then,’ George shouted. ‘Three ranks.’ The fallers-back re-formed. 2013 T. Finch House of Journalists 131 They are the hangers-on of the long-deposed imperial family, and the fallers-off from the long-discredited revolution. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1440 |
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