felt
/ˈfɛlt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.13 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
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."
Etymology
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.
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Inflected Forms
felts (plural)
felte (alternative, archaic)
felts (present, singular)
felting (participle, present)
felted (participle, past)
felted (past)
more felt (comparative)
most felt (superlative)