verb

• (heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
  "Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground."
• (heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
  "The rain fell at dawn."
• (heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
  "Once or twice a noise fell upon his quick ear, and we halted, he standing revolver in hand in an attitude of defense. Each time, however, we ascertained that we had no occasion for alarm, the noise being made by some animal or bird ..."
• (heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
  "He fell to the floor and begged for mercy."

noun

• (chiefly Canada, US, archaic in Britain) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.
  "A friend has pointed out to me the following remark on this word: "In North America the season in which this [the fall of the leaf] takes place, derives its name from that circumstance, and instead of autumn is universally called the fall." [brackets in original]"
• (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.

intj

• (nautical) The cry given when a whale is sighted, or harpooned.

noun

• (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.