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FELLER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: feller   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boy or man

Example:

he's a good bloke

Synonyms:

blighter; bloke; chap; cuss; fella; feller; fellow; gent; lad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("feller" is a kind of...):

male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feller"):

dog (informal term for a man)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who fells trees

Synonyms:

faller; feller; logger; lumberjack; lumberman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("feller" is a kind of...):

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feller"):

scorer (a logger who marks trees to be felled)

Instance hyponyms:

Bunyan; Paul Bunyan (a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada)

Derivation:

fell (cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow)

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