fall

“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

A friend has pointed out to me the following remark on this word: "In North America the season in which this [the fall of the leaf] takes place, derives its name from that circumstance, and instead of autumn is universally called the fall." [brackets in original]

the fall of Rome

A fall of hair tumbled down one side of her body like a veil.

Female patients with localized hair loss on the top of scalp could select a fall or a demiwig to camouflage crown and anterior scalp loss.

He set up his rival to take the fall.

Have the goodness to secure the falls of the mizzen halyards.

Brooks fitted a new fall to his whip.