feller

Meanings

Noun

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

Adjective

• Comparative form or more of fell

Origin

• fell + -er
• Variant of fellow that reflects the reduction of the last vowel to a schwa and its conflation with the endings -er/-ar.
• fell + -er