1. the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal); [syn: hide, fell]
2. seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges; [syn: fell, felled seam]
3. the act of felling something (as a tree);
VERB (3)
1. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; - Example: "strike down a tree" - Example: "Lightning struck down the hikers" [syn: fell, drop, strike down, cut down]
1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; - Example: "a barbarous crime" - Example: "brutal beatings" - Example: "cruel tortures" - Example: "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks" - Example: "a savage slap" - Example: "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious]