faller

plural fallers

1. One who falls.

   I've said that you girls on this side were not very whole-hearted fallers-in-love.

   1920, The Green Book Magazine, volume 23, page 75

   2 more examples

   Most trippers and fallers I know fall forward, but it could have happened. He could have gone out for a midnight walk, he could have wanted to commune with the moon from the middle of the log, he could have tripped and fallen backward […]

   2011, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon

   Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.

   2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury

2. A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.

   There were peas to be gathered and shelled, currants and gooseberries to be picked, and when the apple season came, she had to go round the orchard several times a-day to pick up the fallers.

   1867, The Penny Post, volume 17, page 17

3. engineeringA part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
4. Synonym of feller (“one who cuts down trees”).

   Fallers can make a tree fall exactly where they plan.

   1909, Pamphlets on Conservation of Natural Resources, page 14

   1 more example

   A worker who assists fallers and/or sawyers in clearing away brush, limbs and small trees, […]

   2011, “Master the Firefighter Exam”, in Peterson's

   Synonyms: feller

plural Fallers

1. A surname.