different between fabler vs faller

English

Etymology

fable +? -er

Noun

fabler (plural fablers)

1. A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd’s Calendar, London, “Aprill,”^[1]

     […] certain fine fablers and lowd lyers, such as were the Authors of King Arthure the great and such like, who tell many an vnlawfull leasing of the Ladyes of the Lake, that is, the Nymphes.

   • 1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Boston: James Munroe, “Wednesday,” p. 279,^[2]

     No wonder that the Mythology, and Arabian Nights, and Shakespeare, and Scott’s novels, entertain us,—we are poets and fablers and dramatists and novelists ourselves.

   • 2015, John Irving, Avenue of Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster, Chapter 25,

     Clark insisted that Juan Diego was “on the imagination’s side”; Juan Diego was a “fabler, not a memoirist,” Clark said.

Anagrams

• Frable

Danish

Noun

fabler c pl

1. indefinite plural of fabel

Verb

fabler

1. present of fable

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fabler m

1. indefinite plural of fabel

English

Etymology

fall +? -er

Noun

faller (plural fallers)

1. One who falls.
   • 1920, The Green Book Magazine (volume 23, page 75)

     I've said that you girls on this side were not very whole-hearted fallers-in-love.

   • 2011, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon

     Most trippers and fallers I know fall forward, but it could have happened. He could have gone out for a midnight walk, he could have wanted to commune with the moon from the middle of the log, he could have tripped and fallen backward […]

   • 2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury

     Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.

2. A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
3. (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.

Derived terms

• backfaller
• counter-faller
• off-faller

Anagrams

• Lafler, fellar, refall

Catalan

Adjective

faller (feminine fallera, masculine plural fallers, feminine plural falleres)

1. Of or relating to The Falles

Noun

faller m (plural fallers)

1. Someone taking part in The Falles

Norman

Etymology

From Old French faloir, from an earlier *falleir, from Latin fall?, fallere, from Proto-Indo-European *g?wel- (“to lie, deceive”).

Pronunciation

Verb

faller

1. (Jersey, impersonal) to be necessary

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

faller

1. present tense of falle

Swedish

Pronunciation

Verb

faller

1. present tense of falla.