[f. FELL v. + -ED1.]
1. Of timber: That has been cut down.
1844. H. H. Wilson, Brit. India, III. 123. A thick abatis of felled trees and brushwood.
1865. Livingstone, Zambesi, xxvii. 546. The felled wood was gathered into heaps, about fifty yards long, by thirty broad, and when dry was burned.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., III. IV. 369.
| On a felled oaken tree | |
| We sat beside the cave’s mouth there of old | |
| While he this story, that I looked for, told. |
2. Of a seam: Sewn down so as to be level with the material.
1885. Brietzcke & Rooper, Plain Needlewk., 29. A felled seam, when finished, must lie perfectly flat on both sides.
