verb

definition

To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.

definition

To strike down, kill, destroy.

definition

To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.

noun

definition

The act by which something is felled.

Examples of felling in a Sentence

Africa have been destroyed by over-tapping and felling.

The only drawback to these good qualities is a certain liability to warp and bend, unless very carefully seasoned; for this purpose it is recommended to be left floating in water for a year after felling, and then allowed some months to dry slowly and completely before sawing up the logs; barking the trunk in winter while the tree is standing, and leaving it in that state till the next year, has been often advised with the larch as with other timber, but the practical inconveniences of the plan have prevented its adoption on any large scale.

Records were made as to the nature of the soil and climate where the trees were grown; their conditions of growth, their age and size, and the season of felling.

This desiccation is partly attributable to the unrestricted felling of wood practised for many centuries by the inhabitants.

The greatest care should be exercised in the selection of trees for felling.

This represents 3,900 tons diverted from landfill - enough to fill 100 double-decker busses and save 66,000 trees from felling.

The best time of the year for felling timber is in midsummer or midwinter, when the sap of the tree is at rest; it is not desirable to cut timber in the spring or autumn.

As soon as possible after felling, logs by sawing into scantling sizes, for if the log is left to dry or season, it is liable on shrinking to split.

Especial mention should be made of the ceremony of purifying the grove, which was held to be defiled by the felling of trees, the breaking of a bough or the presence of any iron tools, such as those used by the lapidary who engraved the records of the proceedings on stone.

Blades usually lose their set before becoming blunt, by being trapped in the felling cuts of trees.

This includes fencing and felling conifers to make way for the natural regeneration and new planting of native species.

Donald asked how the felling is planned and if it is correct that felling coupes do not reflect planting areas.

The black poplar has a natural lean which has caused indiscriminate felling of trees that are considered to be unsafe.

Tree felling, conifer planting, inappropriate grazing lack of or too little grazing.

Sometimes I saw him at his work in the woods, felling trees, and he would greet me with a laugh of inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though he spoke English as well.

Tree felling and undergrowth clearance is only done in autumn and winter to avoid harming nesting birds.

The advent of a wetter climate was, however, compounded with man 's activities in tree felling.

Take five to 10 of these deep breaths whenever you're felling tension, anxiety or stress.

In addition to rice-growing and the felling and extraction of timber, and the fisheries, the chief occupations are rice-husking, silk-weaving and dyeing.

The Hevea product is obtained annually by tapping the trees and coagulating the sap over a smoky fire, but the caucho is procured by felling the tree and collecting the sap in a hollow in the ground where it is coagulated by stirring in a mixture of soap and the juice of a plant called vetilla.

Forestry also employs a certain proportion of the population, but the felling of trees is carried on wastefully, though less so than in former years.

Valuable timber was afforded by the vast forest of the Weald, but the restrictions imposed on the felling of wood for fuel did serious detriment to the iron-trade, and after the statute of 1558 forbidding the felling of timber for iron-smelting within fourteen miles of the coast the industry steadily declined.

C. i is on the earliest dwellings of man; C. 2 on systems of Thales, Heraclitus, Democritus, &c.; c. 3 on bricks; c. 4 on sand; c. 5 on lime; c. 6 on pozzolana; c. 7 on kinds of stone for building; c. 8 on methods of constructing walls in stone, brick, concrete and marble, and on the materials for stucco; c. 9 on timber, time for felling it, seasoning, &c.; and c. to on the fir trees of the Apennines.

Despite my legs felling totally knackered I went off in pursuit of the guy in front.

The emergent adults feed on newly planted saplings in a new clear felling.

On the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood.

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