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Definition of Felled
1. fell [v] - See also: fell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Felled
| fellas felled (current term) felled seam feller feller-buncher feller buncher fellers fellest fellies fellifluous | felling fellinic fellmonger fellmongered fellmongeries fellmongering |
Literary usage of Felled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"It has long been believed that oak timber felled in winter is superior to that
felled in spring; but the cause of the superiority has not been inquired into ..."
2. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1839)
"... him in the violence of his rage till his teeth chattered in his head, and,
collecting his whole force into one heavy blow, felled him to the ground. ..."
3. Forest Mensuration by Henry Solon Graves (1906)
"The Measurement of Entire felled Trees.—The foregoing sections show how to ...
The cruiser measures the merchantable contents of felled trees to aid him in ..."
4. Forest Management by Arthur Bernhard Recknagel, John Bentley (1919)
"CHAPTER V THE MEASUREMENT OF felled TREES , 21. Introduction. — One of the chief
objects of forest mensuration is the measurement of whole stands of trees, ..."
5. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1897)
"Not yet the pine felled on its mountains had descended To the liquid waves that
it might see a foreign world, And mortals knew no shores but their own. ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... for timber felled and carried away from plaintiff's land. Affirmed. This action
was brought in the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford County, Pa., ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"In two cases an agreement to sell growing timber was held not to convey any
interest in the laud, but in one of these the timber was to be felled and taken ..."
8. Pamphleteer by Abraham John Valpy (1826)
"Winter felled timber will also require shorter time to season than that cut in
summer, from there being less sap in it to evaporate. I have been informed, ..."
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