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fell

Pronunciation: (fel), [key]
—v.
pt. of fall.

fell

Pronunciation: (fel), [key]
—v.t.
1. to knock, strike, shoot, or cut down; cause to fall: to fell a moose; to fell a tree.
2. Sewing.to finish (a seam) by sewing the edge down flat.

—n.
1. Lumbering.the amount of timber cut down in one season.
2. Sewing.a seam finished by felling.

fell

Pronunciation: (fel), [key]
—adj.
1. fierce; cruel; dreadful; savage.
2. destructive; deadly: fell poison; fell disease.
3. at or in one fell swoop. See swoop (def. 5).