felt
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- //ˈfɛlt//
- /[ˈfɛlt]/
- //ˈfæ̝lt//
- /[ˈfæ̝lt]/
- //ˈfɛʊ̯t//
A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
noun
- 1
A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.
- 2
A hat made of felt.
- 3
A felt-tip pen.
You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels.
- 4
obsoleteA skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
Etymology
From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.
verb
- 1
To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Serge
- 2
To cover with, or as if with, felt.
to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
- 3
To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.
- 4
To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).
verb
- 1
Also a form of feelsimple past and past participle of feel
Etymology
From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.
adjective
- 1
That has been experienced or perceived.
Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.
Forms
- plural
- felts
- comparative
- more felt
- superlative
- most felt
- past tense
- felted
- past participle
- felted
- present participle
- felting
- third person singular
- felts
felt · A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or…
Felt · A surname.female · Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or…feminine · Of or pertaining to the female gender.