faller
IPA: fˈɔɫɝ
noun
- One who falls.
- A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
- (engineering) A part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
- A surname.
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Examples of "faller" in Sentences
- The biggest faller is the United States, dropping from first to sixth.
- These two little boys are supported by a logger, a "faller" to be exact.
- If the thread breaks, a tiny "faller," such as are used in cotton mills, falls down and stops the machine.
- Another faller was the home improvement giant Kingfisher, the company behind B&Q, which closed 8.4p lower on 237.1p.
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