To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
simple past tense of fall
To strike down, kill, destroy.
Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
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.
An animal skin, hide, pelt.
A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
A wild field or upland moor.
A cutting-down of timber.
The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
Very large; huge.
Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent
Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
Sharply; fiercely.
To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
To excise or expunge something from a text.
One blade on a pair of scissors.
Scissors.
Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.