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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

fell1 / fel/ • past of fall. fell2 • v. [tr.] (usu. be felled) cut down (a tree). ∎  knock down: strong winds felled power lines fig. corruption that felled the financial system in Thailand. • n. an amount of timber cut. fell3 • n. a hill or stretch of high moorland, esp. in northern England. an area of fell and moor. fell4 • adj. poetic/lit. of terrible evil or ferocity; deadly: sorcerers use spells to achieve their fell ends. PHRASES: in one fell swoop all at one time: nothing can topple the government in one fell swoop. fell5 • n. archaic an animal's hide or skin with its hair.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

fell1 skin, hide. OE. fel(l) = OS., OHG. fel (Du. vel, G. fell), ON. berfjall bearskin, Goth. þrūtsfill ‘swelling-skin’, leprosy (= OE. þrūstfell) :- Gmc. *fellam :- IE. *pello-, the base being repr. also by L. pellis skin.
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A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | | Copyright

fell An area of open mountainside with low-lying vegetation. The word is derived from the Old Norse fiall, meaning ‘hill’, and survives in a number of place names in northern England, probably as a result of Viking settlement.
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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

fell An area of open mountainside with low-lying vegetation. The word is derived from the Old Norse fiall, meaning ‘hill’, and survives in a number of place names in northern England, probably as a result of Viking settlement.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

fell2 hill; wild stretch of land. XIII. — ON. fjall and fell hill, mountain, presumably rel. to OS. felis, OHG. felis(a) (G. fels) rock, Skr. pā⋅yá- stone, (O)Ir. all rock (IE. *pels-).
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fell4 strike down. OE. (Anglian) fellan, (WS.) fyllan, *fiellan = OS. fellian (Du. vellen), OHG. fellen (G. fällen), ON. fella :- Gmc. *falljan, causative of *fallan FALL2.
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fell3 (arch.) fierce, cruel, dire. XIII. — OF. fel :- Rom. *fellō; cf. FELON.
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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

fell •Adele, Aix-la-Chapelle, aquarelle, artel, au naturel, bagatelle, béchamel, befell, bell, belle, boatel, Brunel, Cadell, carousel, cartel, cell, Chanel, chanterelle, clientele, Clonmel, compel, Cornell, crime passionnel, dell, demoiselle, dispel, dwell, el, ell, Estelle, excel, expel, farewell, fell, Fidel, fontanelle, foretell, Gabrielle, gazelle, gel, Giselle, hell, hotel, impel, knell, lapel, mademoiselle, maître d'hôtel, Manuel, marcel, matériel, mesdemoiselles, Michel, Michelle, Miguel, misspell, morel, moschatel, Moselle, motel, muscatel, nacelle, Nell, Nobel, Noel, organelle, outsell, Parnell, pell-mell, personnel, propel, quell, quenelle, rappel, Raquel, Ravel, rebel, repel, Rochelle, Sahel, sardelle, sell, shell, show-and-tell, smell, Snell, spell, spinel, swell, tell, undersell, vielle, villanelle, well, yell •Buñuel • Pachelbel • handbell •barbell • harebell • decibel • doorbell •cowbell • bluebell • Annabel •mirabelle • Christabel • Jezebel •Isabel, Isobel •nutshell • infidel • asphodel •zinfandel • Grenfell • Hillel • parallel •Cozumel • caramel • Fresnel •pimpernel • pipistrelle • Tricel •filoselle

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