adjective: 1. Fierce; cruel; lethal. 2. In the idiom, in one fell swoop (all at once, as if by a blow). verb tr.: 1. To knock down, strike, or cut down. 2. To sew a seam by folding one rough edge under the other, flat, on the wrong side, as in jeans. noun: 1. The amount of timber cut. 2. In sewing, a felled seam. noun: A stretch of open country in the highlands. noun: The skin or hide of an animal. This week's theme: Polysemantic words More...
For those of you trying to figure out the sewing references... think of a seam down the sides of your jeans or along the ridgeline of a tent. It's a way of attaching 2 large pieces of material with a very strong seam... often called a flat-felled seam. Hey... what is this, the "Sewing Site"?
If we started bickering about the word, then name calling, then banning folks, then yes it would be. Mark