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Definition of Fallers
1. faller [n] - See also: faller
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fallers
Literary usage of Fallers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Silk Throwing and Waste Silk Spinning by Hollins Rayner (1903)
"The back rollers receive the silk, deliver it to the fallers, which rise one by one,
... The fallers then drop, and are carried back to the rising end, ..."
2. Life and Labour in the Far, Far West: Being Notes of a Tour in the Western by William Henry Barneby (1884)
"John Chinaman's Expeditious Dish—Timber and Timber-fallers—Axe or Saw ? —Indian
Industry—Hunting on a Limited Scale—The Argumentum ad ..."
3. Cotton Spinning: Its Development, Principles, and Practice by Richard Marsden (1888)
"Automatic regulation of the fallers ; the lifting motion; locking and unlocking
of the faller; winding; and backing off.—Speed of the parts; changes; ..."
4. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1902)
"In the former case the forward motion of the fallers is quicker than the rate of
delivery of the back rollers, the operation being precisely the same as if ..."
5. Modern Flax, Hemp and Jute Spinning and Twisting: A Practical Handbook for by Herbert R. Carter (1907)
"The sheet leathers deliver the fibre to the feed rollers, after passing through
which it is "pinned" by the gills as the fallers rise close up to the " nip ..."
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