1. [verb] (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
2. [verb] To strike down, kill, destroy.
3. [verb] (sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
4. [noun] A cutting-down of timber.
5. [noun] The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
6. [noun] (textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
7. [verb] Simple past tense of fall
8. [noun] An animal skin, hide.
9. [noun] Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
10. [noun] (archaic outside the UK) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
11. [noun] (archaic outside the UK) A wild field or upland moor.
12. [adjective] Of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
13. [adjective] (UK dialectal) (Scotland) Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent; clever.
14. [adjective] (obsolete) Eager; earnest; intent.
15. [adverb] Sharply; fiercely.
16. [noun] Gall; anger; melancholy.
17. [noun] (mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
18. [noun] The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal).
19. [noun] Seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges.
20. [noun] The act of felling something (as a tree).
21. [verb] Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; 'strike down a tree'; 'Lightning struck down the hikers'.
22. [verb] Pass away rapidly; 'Time flies like an arrow'; 'Time fleeing beneath him'.
23. [verb] Sew a seam by folding the edges.
24. [adjective] (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; 'a barbarous crime'; 'brutal beatings'; 'cruel tortures'; 'Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks'; 'a savage slap'; 'vicious kicks'.
