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English

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Pronunciation
IPA|/fεlt/, SAMPA|/fElt/
audio|en-us-felt.ogg|Audio (US)
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�lt|-�lt

Etymology 1
OE. 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
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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.

#:Quotations
#:*It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. — Shakespeare, King Lear, IV-vi

1. A hat made of felt. — Thynne
2. 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

Translations
trans-top|cloth made of matted fibres of wool
Chinese: ��, �毡 (máozh�n)
Danish: filt n
Dutch: vilt n
Finnish: huopa (1)
French: feutre m, feutrine f
German: Filz n
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Russian: �� m
Spanish: fieltro m
Swedish: filt c
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trans-top|hat made of felt
Danish: filthat c
German: Filzhut m
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Related terms
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-tip pen

Verb
en-verb

1. transitive To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. — Sir M. Hale
2. transitive To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.

Translations
trans-top|make into felt
German: filzen
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trans-top|cover with felt
Danish: filte
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ttbc|Swedish: filta

Etymology 2
See feel.

Verb
felt

1. past of|feel

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Danish

Noun
felt n

1. field

Derived terms
feltflaske c
feltseng c
felttog n

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Norwegian

Noun
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1. field

Verb
felt

1. Past participle of felle

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