feller

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person whose work is cutting down trees

   The feller checked the wind before making the final cut in the pine.

2. 2
   noun

   a machine designed to cut down trees

   A tracked feller cleared the damaged trees along the access road.

3. 3
   noun

   informal or dialectal: a man or fellow

   That feller at the gate said the road was closed.

In the tree-cutting senses, from fell ('to cut down') + the agent suffix -er. The informal sense is a colloquial alteration of fellow, reflecting reduction of its final vowel.

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