Meaning of Fell | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A cutting-down of timber.
2. An animal skin, hide, pelt.
3. High and barren landscape feature such as a mountain range or mountain terrain above the tree line.
4. Anger; gall; melancholy.
   obsolete, rare, uncountable
5. A surname.
6. The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
7. Ellipsis of Fell pony.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
8. 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.
9. Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
10. A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia.
    Scotland
11. A township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.
12. Ellipsis of Fell mountain railway system, named after John Barraclough Fell.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
13. The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
14. A wild field or upland moor.
    Scotland
15. A municipality in Trier-Saarland district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Examples

“Why, we are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy.”

“For he is fader of feith · fourmed ȝow alle / Bothe with fel and with face.”

“Every now and then the sea calls some farmer or shepherd, and the restless drop in his veins gives him no peace till he has found his way over the hills and fells to the port of Whitehaven, and gone back to the cradling bosom that rocked his ancestors.”

“The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, / While hammers fell like ringing bells, / In places deep, where dark things sleep, / In hollow halls beneath the fells.”

“I got out and from where I stood, high at the head, I could see all of the strangely formed cleft in the hills, its steep sides grooved and furrowed by countless streams feeding the boisterous Halden Beck which tumbled over its rocky bed far below. Down there, were trees and some cultivated fields, but immediately behind me the wild country came crowding in on the bowl where the farmhouse lay. Halsten Pike, Alstang, Birnside—the huge fells with their barbarous names were very near.”

“She didn't know at first why she stepped off the road and climbed the bank on to the fells; it wasn't until she found herself skirting a disused quarry that she realised where she was making for, and when she reached the place she stood and gazed at it. It was a hollow within an outcrop of rock, not large enough to call a cave but deep enough to shelter eight people from the rain, and with room to spare.”

“So the noble prince proceeded undismayed up fells and screes, along narrow footpaths and ways where they were forced into single file, ledges on cliffs above lairs of water-monsters.”

“As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell;”

“The night continued beautifully clear and fine, and as we came into the fell country the outlines of the hills showed up dark against the starlit sky.”

“I remember the sudden drop in the note of the station bell, as we roar through, perhaps with 16 coaches; sweep up to milepost 9½, and then, with increasing thunder from the exhaust, fairly rush the fells at Milnthorpe at the foot of the climb to Grayrigg, until the steady thunderous beat re-echoes past Mosedale Hall, still at 40 m.p.h.”

“And there are few better ways to enjoy the rugged bleakness of the fells than from a nice warm train, especially when the weather's constantly changing as the day slips away.”

“An artist dubbed the Borrowdale Banksy has created this slate work on a Lake District fell after past efforts were vandalised.”

“Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell.”

“I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. / What hours, O what black hoürs we have spent / This night!”

“Fells are usually pure black with no white markings, but bay, gray, and brown are also possible.”

“This line [the Snaefell Mountain Railway] is the world's only example of an electrically-operated railway with a Fell central rail.”

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