(transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree. / (transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy. / (sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.

A cutting-down of timber. / 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.

An animal skin, hide, pelt. / Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).

(archaic outside UK) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains. / (archaic outside UK) A wild field or upland moor.

Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage. / (UK dialectal, Scotland) Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent / (UK dialectal, Scotland) Very large; huge.

Sharply; fiercely.

(obsolete, rare) Anger; gall; melancholy.

(mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

simple past tense of fall / (now colloquial) past participle of fall

A surname.