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Felt

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Etymology 1

Anglo Saxon felt; akin to Dutch vilt, German filz, and possibly to Greek hair or wool wrought into felt, Latin pilus hair, pileus a felt cap or hat

Noun

felt (uncountable)

  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.
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    • It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. - Shakespeare, King Lear, IV-vi
  2. A hat made of felt. - Thynne
  3. (Obsolete): A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt
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Transitive verb

to felt (felts, felted, 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 emgine.
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Etymology 2

See feel

Verb

  1. Past tense of to feel
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Verb

  1. Past participle of to feel
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