Meaning

noun the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

noun seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges

noun the act of felling something (as a tree)

originFrom Middle English fell, felle, from Old Norse fell (fjall, fiæl, “mountain range or mountain terrain above the tree line”), from Proto-Germanic *felzą, *fel(e)zaz, *falisaz (compare German Felsen 'boulder, cliff', Middle Low German vels 'hill, mountain'), from Proto-Indo-European *pels-; compare Irish aill (“boulder, cliff”), Ancient Greek πέλλα (pélla, “stone”), Pashto پرښه (parṣ̌a, “rock,…

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