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What about: To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down: fell a tree
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verb tr.: 1. To knock down, strike, or cut down.
Maybe you didn't scroll down far enough.
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It always tickled my fancy the you can 'saw down a tree' then proceed to 'cut it up'
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Giant oaks from little acorns grew, grew up, and what goes up must come down.
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What about: To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down: fell a tree WELCOME jroop48
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>>>1. Fierce; cruel; lethal.<<<
So, "that foul deed" could also be "that fell deed"?
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Yes, indeed.
I presume that "fell swoop" referred originally to a bird of prey, an image that was brought home to me one spring night as my wife and I were preparing for sleep: outside our window we heard our lovely little Manx cat shriek, the heavy beat of a wing, and she was gone. Owl or hawk, we never knew.
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Yes, indeed.
I presume that "fell swoop" referred originally to a bird of prey, an image that was brought home to me one spring night as my wife and I were preparing for sleep: outside our window we heard our lovely little Manx cat shriek, the heavy beat of a wing, and she was gone. Owl or hawk, we never knew.
Peter What a horrible thing to have happened...
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Yes, indeed.
I presume that "fell swoop" referred originally to a bird of prey, an image that was brought home to me one spring night as my wife and I were preparing for sleep: outside our window we heard our lovely little Manx cat shriek, the heavy beat of a wing, and she was gone. Owl or hawk, we never knew.
Peter I have a huge Cooper's hawk living in the trees, and s/he has been making dinner lately of the mourning doves which are so slow to fly away. Fell swoops and all.
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making dinner lately of the mourning doves Now that truly is a fell swoop; for the unlucky dove, anyway.
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