fall to
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.13 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To enter into or begin an activity, especially with enthusiasm or commitment and especially in regard to the activities of eating or drinking.
Dated; Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Titus: Come, let's fall to; and, gentle girl, eat this."
- "In the middle of it, in front of the little public house, stood, all that day and the next, a group of men and women, for no five minutes in its component parts the same, but, like a cloud, ever slow dissolving, and as continuously reforming, some dropping away, others falling to."
- "[H]e is interrupted by the arrival of a hamper of wine . . . upon the receipt of which he sends for three friends, and they fall to instantly, drinking two bottles apiece."
- "[T]he floor was thick with a litter of rubbish. . . . Duncan surveyed it ruefully, but with the will to do strong in him, took off his coat, turned up his trousers, and fell to."
- "Many a reader whose appetite rejoices in hearty fare tucked in his napkin, smacked his lips and fell to with a will."