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Webster 1913 Edition


Felt

Felt

,
imp.
&
p.
p.
or
Adj.
from
Feel
.

Felt

,
Noun.
[AS.
felt
; akin to D.
vilt
, G.
filz
, and possibly to Gr. [GREEK] hair or wool wrought into felt, L.
pilus
hair,
pileus
a felt cap or hat.]
1.
A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers 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.
Shakespeare
2.
A hat made of felt.
Thynne.
3.
A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
[Obs.]
To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the
felt
be loose.
Mortimer.
Felt grain
,
the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber.
Knight.

Felt

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Felted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Felting
.]
1.
To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
Sir M. Hale.
2.
To cover with, or as with, felt;
as, to
felt
the cylinder of a steam engine
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Felt

FELT

, pret. of feel.

FELT

,
Noun.
[L. pellis, Eng. fell, a skin from plucking or stripping, L. vello, vellus, Eng. wool.]
1.
A cloth or stuff made of wool, or wool and hair, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure with lees or size.
2.
A hat made of wool.
3.
Skin.
To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.

FELT

,
Verb.
T.
To make cloth or stuff of wool, or wool and hair, by fulling.

Definition 2024


felt

felt

See also: félt

English

Felt cloths.

Noun

felt (uncountable)

  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.
    • Shakespeare, King Lear, act 4, scene 6:
      It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.
  2. A hat made of felt.
  3. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
    • 1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry:
      To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
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Related terms

Verb

felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted)

  1. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Matthew Hale to this entry?)
  2. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.
    to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
Translations

Etymology 2

Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.

Verb

felt

  1. simple past tense and past participle of feel

Adjective

felt (comparative more felt, superlative most felt)

  1. That has been experienced or perceived.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 257:
      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.

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Most common English words before 1923: best · word · light · #248: felt · since · use · used

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German velt, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (flat).

Gender changed by influence from mark.

Noun

felt c (singular definite felten, not used in plural form)

  1. field (the practical part of something)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From German Feld, from Old High German feld, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (flat).

Noun

felt n (singular definite feltet, plural indefinite felter)

  1. field
  2. sphere, province
  3. square
Derived terms
Inflection

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From German Feld

Noun

felt n (definite singular feltet, indefinite plural felt or felter, definite plural felta or feltene)

  1. field
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

felt

  1. past participle of felle

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Feld

Noun

felt n (definite singular feltet, indefinite plural felt, definite plural felta)

  1. field

Derived terms

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