"faller" meaning in English

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      "word": "counterfaller"
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      "word": "off-faller"
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      "expansion": "fall + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "fall + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fallers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "faller (plural fallers)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920, The Green Book Magazine, volume 23, page 75",
          "text": "I've said that you girls on this side were not very whole-hearted fallers-in-love.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury",
          "text": "Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who falls."
      ],
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    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1867, The Penny Post, volume 17, page 17",
          "text": "There were peas to be gathered and shelled, currants and gooseberries to be picked, and when the apple season came, she had to go round the orchard several times a-day to pick up the fallers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked."
      ],
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          "name": "Engineering",
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            "Applied sciences",
            "Technology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      "glosses": [
        "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."
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        "(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."
      ],
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        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
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    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "backfaller"
    },
    {
      "word": "counterfaller"
    },
    {
      "word": "off-faller"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "fall",
        "3": "er",
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      },
      "expansion": "fall + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "fall + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fallers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "faller (plural fallers)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1920, The Green Book Magazine, volume 23, page 75",
          "text": "I've said that you girls on this side were not very whole-hearted fallers-in-love.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury",
          "text": "Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who falls."
      ],
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        [
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      ]
    },
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1867, The Penny Post, volume 17, page 17",
          "text": "There were peas to be gathered and shelled, currants and gooseberries to be picked, and when the apple season came, she had to go round the orchard several times a-day to pick up the fallers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked."
      ],
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      ]
    },
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      ],
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        "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."
      ],
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        "(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."
      ],
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        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
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  "word": "faller"
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