feller
noun, proper noun
Forms fellers
- noun A person who fells trees; a lumberjack
- noun A machine for felling trees.
- noun A person who fells a seam.
- noun An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
lumberman lumberjack logger faller chap fellow fella lad gent blighter cuss bloke
Etymology
From Middle English fellere, feller; equivalent to fell + -er.
Variant of fellow that reflects the reduction of the last vowel to a schwa and its conflation with the endings -er/-ar.
From fell + -er.
Likely an occupational surname from English feller (“one who fells trees; a lumberjack”).
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “feller”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details