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Rarefells
The correct spelling is fells.
How to pronounce fells
noun
Say it like: Fel-ls
The correct spelling is fells. A cutting-down of timber.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.A cutting-down of timber.
- 2.The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
- 3.The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
- 4.An animal skin, hide, pelt.
- 5.Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
verb
- 1.To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
- 2.To strike down, kill, destroy.
- 3.To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
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