Felt

Noun

 * 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) * Shakespeare, King Lear, act 4, scene 6:
 * It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.
 * 1) A hat made of felt.
 * 2)  A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
 * 3) * 1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry:
 * To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.

Verb

 * 1)  To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. &mdash; Sir Matthew Hale
 * 2)  To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam engine.

Verb
felt



Adjectives for Felt
faded; clean.

Thesaurus
cloth, drapery, etoffe, fabric, goods, lace, material, napery, rag, silk, stuff, textile, textile fabric, texture, tissu, tissue, weave, web, weft, woof, wool

Etymology 1
felt:, from (compare  vilt:,  Filz:,  filt:), from  'felt' (compare  pilleus: 'felt' (adj.),  undefined:,  plis:, Ancient Greek undefined:), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

Etymology 2
See feel.

Noun

 * Bosnian:, filc
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 毛氈, 毛毡
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: huopa (1), huopa
 * French: ,


 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: フェルト, 羅紗
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:, войлок
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: keçe, fötr, kiyiz


 * Bosnian: pusteni šešir
 * Danish: filthat
 * Finnish:


 * German: Filzhut
 * Norwegian:
 * Turkish: fötr

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. &mdash; Knight
 * felt-tip pen
 * coated felt sheet
 * saturated felt

Verb

 * German:


 * Danish: filte


 * : filta

Anagrams

 * left
 * TEFL

Etymology 1
From velt:, from.

Gender changed by influence from mark:.

Noun

 * 1) field (the practical part of something)

Derived terms

 * feltarbejde
 * feltflaske
 * feltfod
 * feltherre
 * felthær
 * feltkøkken


 * feltlazaret
 * feltmadras
 * feltmarskal
 * feltmæssig
 * feltpræst
 * feltråb


 * feltseng
 * felttog
 * feltundersøgelse
 * i felten
 * til felts

Etymology 2
From Feld:, from  feld:, from.

Noun

 * 1) field
 * 2) sphere, province
 * 3) square

Derived terms

 * centralfelt
 * fodgængerfelt
 * forfelt
 * førerfelt
 * gammafelt
 * gåfelt


 * kraftfelt
 * krydsfelt
 * kulfelt
 * magnetfelt
 * minefelt
 * neksusfelt


 * slutfelt
 * spændingsfelt
 * synsfelt
 * virkefelt

Noun

 * 1) field

Verb
felt


 * 1) Past participle of felle