different between faller vs fuller

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.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?l?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?l?(r)
• Homophone: Fuller

Etymology 1

From full.

Adjective

fuller

1. comparative form of full: more full

Etymology 2

From full +? -er, from the verb.

Noun

fuller (plural fullers)

1. A person who fulls cloth.

   Synonyms: walker, waulker

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Unknown origin.

Noun

fuller (plural fullers)

1. A convex, rounded or grooved tool, used by blacksmiths for shaping metal.
2. A groove made by such a tool (in the blade of a sword etc.).

Translations

Verb

fuller (third-person singular simple present fullers, present participle fullering, simple past and past participle fullered)

1. (transitive) To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer.

   to fuller a bayonet