Definition

1. Noun:
   • A person who falls: This refers to a person who physically falls down or collapses.
   • A person who fells trees: This refers to a person whose job is to cut down trees; a lumberjack or logger.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Person who falls):
  • The paramedics rushed to help the faller on the icy sidewalk.
  • The ski patrol is trained to assist any faller on the slopes.
• Noun (Person who fells trees):
  • The faller skillfully directed the giant pine tree away from the power lines.
  • He worked as a faller in the Pacific Northwest forests for twenty years.

Advanced Usage

• The term "faller" to mean a person who falls is often used in specific, formal, or technical contexts (e.g., medical reports, safety manuals, news reports about accidents) rather than in everyday conversation, where one might simply say "the person who fell."
• In forestry, "faller" is a standard occupational term, distinct from other logging roles like "bucker" (who cuts felled trees into logs) or "choker setter."

Variants and Related Words

• Fall (verb): The action from which the noun "faller" is derived.
• Fell (verb): To cut down (a tree), from which the occupational sense of "faller" is derived.
• Logger (noun): A more general term for a person who works in logging.
• Lumberjack (noun): A synonym for a person who fells trees.

Synonyms

• For a person who falls: Victim (of a fall), casualty.
• For a person who fells trees: Logger, lumberjack, woodcutter, feller.

Related Phrases

• Tree faller: A more explicit phrase for the occupational meaning, though "faller" alone is standard in the industry.
• Prone to falling: A descriptive phrase for someone who is a frequent faller.

Noun

1. a person who falls
   • one of them was safe but they were unable to save the faller
   • a faller among thieves
2. a person who fells trees