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faller

/faw-ler/US // ˈfɔ lər //UK // (ˈfɔːlə) //

堕落者,落水者,坠落者,堕落的人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that falls.
    • : any of various devices that operate by falling.
    • : Textiles. a device for cleaning, straightening, and separating fibers during combing of worsted stock, consisting of a series of metal pins set into a rectangular bar or rod.
    • : a logger hired to cut down trees; feller.

Examples

  • So many of the biggest RAPTOR risers and fallers should change as the year goes on — or, at the very least, revert some toward their previous levels of performance.

  • Bill Hayes, he of the gray mustache and the ear-piercing faller's cry, was a "long-stake" man.

  • Moreover, each row or rather double row, of pins is carried separately by what is termed a "faller."

  • I seem to be a pretty good faller—only there's no falling race.

  • Another wire called the counter-faller, l5, must be applied under the threads.

  • In the first place, whether as faller, rigging man or on the "drive," his work is muscular and out of doors.