Meaning

• A cutting-down of timber.

• The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.

• The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

Meaning

• To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.

• To strike down, kill, destroy.

• To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.