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What is a faller?

What is a faller? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who falls.
  2. A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
  3. (engineering) A 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.
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One hand faller is still on staff to handle some of the larger trees in the steeper terrain, but almost all of the work is done with mechanized equipment.
The effect of this mechanism is to lift the faller a distance of about 13 in.
This should be done over the posts, as the bars might be broken, were the weight of the faller to come in the middle.
A counter faller under the thread was made to rise to take in the slack caused by backing off.
Bote he is dem young faller bane goin' 'round hare dees two, t'ree days, lukin' lak preacher out of a yob.
The speed of revolution of the spindle must vary, as the faller is guiding the thread upon the larger or smaller diameter of the cone of the cop.

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