Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - fell
Fell
fell
1. past of FALL v. 2. v. & n. --v.tr. 1 cut down (esp. a tree). 2 strike or knock down (a person or animal). 3 stitch down (the edge of a seam) to lie flat. --n. an amount of timber cut. Derivatives feller n. Etymology: OE fellan f. Gmc, rel. to FALL 3. n. N.Engl. 1 a hill. 2 a stretch of hills or moorland. Etymology: ME f. ON fjall, fell hill 4. adj. poet. or rhet. 1 fierce, ruthless. 2 terrible, destructive. Phrases and idioms at (or in) one fell swoop in a single (orig. deadly) action. Etymology: ME f. OF fel f. Rmc FELON(1) 5. n. an animal's hide or skin with its hair. Etymology: OE fel, fell f. Gmc
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German fel skin, Latin pellis Date: before 12th century skin, hide, pelt, a thin tough membrane covering a carcass directly under the hide, II. transitive verb see: fall Date: before 12th century 1. to cut, knock, or bring down , kill, to sew (a seam) by folding one raw edge under the other and sewing flat on the wrong side, ~able adjective ~er noun see: fall IV. adjective see: felon Date: 14th century 1. fierce, cruel, terrible, sinister, malevolent , very destructive ; deadly , sharp, pungent, ~ness noun ~y adverb V. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse ~, fjall mountain; akin to Old High German felis rock Date: 14th century a high barren field or moor ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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