Verb (used with object) : to fell a moose; to fell a tree.    From Dictionary.com. 

In many places one cannot alter what they legally own such as felling adult trees etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [And our new Chief Justice is…] Reference

One climactic call heralds in felling of the wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pinus Timbre] Reference

This finishes the second group of operations, the felling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handwork in Wood] Reference

Brushing the dense undergrowth and then felling the timber at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fruits of Queensland] Reference

All these are operations preliminary to the felling of trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handwork in Wood] Reference

After the felling comes the trimming of branches and knots and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handwork in Wood] Reference

For their welfare naught wax'd he, but for felling in slaughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

Not her father, chopping at and felling the giant trees some distance away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

After the long months of labour, after felling the oak and pine in the forests of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference

The rebels had obstructed the navigation of Yazoo Pass and the Coldwater by felling trees into them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

His teeth were not yet long and sharp enough for felling trees, but they could cut off the smaller branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Followers of the Trail] Reference

The women not seldom joined in the work of felling trees and trimming logs to be used in erecting the cabins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

Mounted upon his great gray steed, "Monmouth," he spurred through a rampart, felling the Mexicans as he went.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference

A fair week's work for a couple, including selection of the mature plants and felling, would be about 300 lbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

Here the logs rest and the felling and skidding continue until deep snow falls and then the sleigh haul begins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handwork in Wood] Reference

To provide for as little delay as possible between the felling of the tree and its manufacture into rough products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

One day was consumed in selecting, felling, and trimming a tree, tall and straight enough to serve as a ridge-pole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

We had proceeded but about six miles, when we found the enemy had been very busy felling trees to obstruct the creek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The attempt to pen in the boats, by felling trees across the river, was thwarted by the rapid movements of the boats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro (North Carolina) expedition, December, 1862] Reference

The men do the timber-felling, wood-cutting, clearing the land, house and boat building, and the heavier work generally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of Borneo] Reference

Side-note: Hailey also questions the validity of children who find domestic stability after felling insurmountable obstacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monster] Reference

The idea of felling trees completely was to graft stump sprouts or to insert the slot bark graft into the stump near the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920] Reference

In his ignorance of the use of an axe I saw him, in felling a tree, "throw" it so that it fell on and killed a horse tied nearby.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference

I have a hundred axmen in my charge, felling timber on the mountain, and constructing rough breastworks to protect our left flank.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

On the sloping banks grew some gigantic gum trees, which Mr. Rainsfield proposed felling in such a way, as to fall across the stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference

The saw can be adjusted to cut horizontally, vertically, or obliquely, and hence is used for sawing into lengths as well as for felling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handwork in Wood] Reference

Payne started downstairs, and after taking a few steps, suddenly turned around and struck Mr. Frederick Seward, felling him to the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference

One of these, and the most important, is to remove all the bark from the timber that has been cut, just as soon as possible after felling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

The tool most highly praised at Philadelphia was the American felling axe (fig. 52) "made out of a solid piece of cast steel" with the eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference

The Ambé project in Para state, 700km downstream from Manaus, allows the felling of selected trees in a 25-year cycle to enable new trees to flourish.    From Wordnik.com.  [New horizons as city makes connections that could tear Amazon apart] Reference

Ablett had to endure this thriller from the stand after being suspended for three matches last week for felling Sam Tomkins in a Super League defeat by Wigan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leeds' Carl Ablett sweats on Challenge Cup recall] Reference

It said the project will also lead to the felling of 121,337 trees and could affect wildlife such as antelope, two species of deer and a rare species of lizard.    From Wordnik.com.  [India Panel: Vedanta Mine Would Threaten Tribes] Reference

With the help of the Forestry Commission, we've drawn up a five-year management plan for the wood which gives us a clear direction in terms of felling and restocking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tobias Jones: a retreat of one's own] Reference

And it happened, as one was felling some timber, that the head of the ax fell into the water: and he cried out, and said: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, for this same was borrowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 12: 4 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference