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#197348 02/14/11 10:22 AM
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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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Originally Posted By: jroop48
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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Originally Posted By: Tromboniator
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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Originally Posted By: Tromboniator
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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LukeJavan8 #197434 02/16/11 03:34 AM
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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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