feller

fell +‎ -er

feller (plural fellers)

1. A person who fells trees; a lumberjack
2. A machine for felling trees.
3. An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

Variant of fellow that reflects the reduction of the last vowel to a schwa and its conflation with the endings -er/-ar.[1]

feller (plural fellers)

1. Eye dialect spelling of fellow.
   • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:

     There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […] ”

• blackfeller
• whitefeller

• fellow, fellar, fella, fellah

fell +‎ -er

feller

1. (archaic) comparative form of fell: more fell

• Lefler, refell

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feller

1. Comparative form of fel

feller

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of fellō

feller m or f

1. indefinite plural of felle

feller

1. present tense of felle

feller f

1. plural indefinite of felle

feller

1. present tense of fella