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fall
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fall
1. Machinery nautical the end of a tackle to which power is applied to hoist it
2. Nautical one of the lines of a davit for holding, lowering, or raising a boat
3. Wrestling a scoring move, pinning both shoulders of one's opponent to the floor for a specified period
4. Hunting
a. another word for deadfall
b. (as modifier): a fall trap

Fall
the Theol Adam's sin of disobedience and the state of innate sinfulness ensuing from this for himself and all mankind

fall [fȯl]
(astronomy)
Of a spacecraft or spatial body, to drop toward a spatial body under the influence of its gravity.
(engineering)
The minimum slope that is required to facilitate proper drainage of liquid inside a pipe.
(mechanical engineering)
The rope or chain of a hoisting tackle.
(mining engineering)
A mass of rock, coal, or ore which has fallen from the roof or side in any subterranean working or gallery.

fall
The slope of a pipe, conduit, or channel usually expressed in inches per foot (or centimeters per meter) or in percent.


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When he turned to the Church Fathers, for example, Foxe was at pains to stress that, though this cannot be denied, but that holy Cyprian and other blessed Martyrs were holy men, yet notwithstanding they were men: that is, such as might haue, & hath their falles and faultes, men I say & not aungels, nor gods, saved by God, not sauiours of men, nor patrons of grace.
They doe not know the Hollownesse through which it falles resistless through naturall gates and alleys, to the butts of these, my most unhallowed, dungeon'd Guttes, and putrescent layers of ruinous prayers.
Mittheilung eines Falles vermatchlicher Pneumatocoele des Sinus frontalis.
 
 
 
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