English

Noun

faller ‎(plural fallers)

1. One who falls.
   • 2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury

     Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.

2. An apple that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
3. (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.

Derived terms

• backfaller
• counter-faller
• off-faller

Anagrams

• refall

Catalan

Adjective

faller m ‎(feminine fallera, masculine plural fallers, feminine plural falleres)

1. Of or relating to The Falles

Noun

faller m ‎(plural fallers)

1. Someone taking part in The Falles

Norman

Etymology

From Old French faloir, from an earlier *falleir, from Latin fallō, fallere, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰwel- ‎(“to lie, deceive”).

Pronunciation

Verb

faller

1. (Jersey, impersonal) to be necessary

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

faller

1. present tense of falle

Swedish

Pronunciation

Verb

faller

1. present tense of falla.