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 size, without spinning or weaving.
Meaning & usage
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.
A hat made of felt.
A felt-tip pen.
A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
Where this word comes from
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.
To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
To cover with, or as if with, felt.
to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.
To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).
Where this word comes from
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.
That has been experienced or perceived.
Where this word comes from
From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.
simple past and past participle of feel
Where this word comes from
From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.
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