Felt

/ˈfɛlt/ · noun

Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

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.
2. A hat made of felt.
3. A felt-tip pen.
4. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
5. To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
6. To cover with, or as if with, felt.
7. (poker) To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.
8. (by extension, Internet slang) To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).

Example Sentences

It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.

You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels.

To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.

the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Serge

to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

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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Word Forms

• felts
• felte
• felting
• felted
• more felt
• most felt

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