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Felt
Pronunciation
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
- 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.
- Quotations
- It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. - Shakespeare, King Lear, IV-vi
Translations
A hat made of felt. - Thynne
(Obsolete): A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt
Quotations
- To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose - Mortimer
Derived expression
- 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
Transitive verb
Imperfect and past participle: felted
Present participle: felting
- To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. - Sir M. Hale
- To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.
Translations
Etymology 2
See feel
Verb
- past tense of to feel
- Translations
- Danish: følte
- Dutch: voelde, voelden
- Indonesian: merasa, merasakan, menganggap, beranggap, beranggapan
- Japanese: 感じた (かんじた, kanjita)
past participle of to feel
Translations
- Danish: følt
- Dutch: gevoeld
- Indonesian: merasa, merasakan, menganggap, beranggap, beranggapan, terasa
- Japanese: 感じた (かんじた, kanjita), 感じられた (かんじられた, kanjirareta)
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