Word of the Day : fell

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  1. Nathan

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    #1 Nathan, Feb 13, 2011
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    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.

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  2. ScottinBend

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    I prefer falled.......
     
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    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"?
     
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    If we started bickering about the word, then name calling, then banning folks, then yes it would be.

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    Perhaps they should have kicked off with defining the word polysemantic...
     

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