felt

• IPA^(key): /fɛlt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlt

From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-Germanic *feltaz (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”) (adj.), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

felt (countable and uncountable, plural felts)

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.
   • Shakespeare, King Lear, act 4, scene 6:

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

2. A hat made of felt.
3. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
   • 1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry:

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

• 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
• coated felt sheet
• saturated felt

felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted)

1. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir M. Hale to this entry?)

2. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.

   to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

3. (transitive)(poker) To cause a player to lose all their chips.

Old English fēled, corresponding to feel +‎ -ed.

felt

1. simple past tense and past participle of feel

felt (comparative more felt, superlative most felt)

1. That has been experienced or perceived.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 257:

     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.

• TEFL, flet, left

From Middle Low German velt, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“flat”).

Gender changed by influence from mark.

felt c (singular definite felten, not used in plural form)

1. field (the practical part of something)

From German Feld, from Old High German feld, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“flat”).

felt n (singular definite feltet, plural indefinite felter)

1. field
2. sphere, province
3. square

• “felt” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “felt,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

• felte, feltte, feelte

From Old English felt, from Proto-Germanic *feltaz.

• IPA^(key): /fɛlt/

felt (plural feltes)

1. Felted fabric or a sample or swab of it; felt.
2. A piece of headgear made from felted fabric; a felt hat.

• felten
• felter

• English: felt
• Scots: felt

• “felt (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-10.

From German Feld

felt n (definite singular feltet, indefinite plural felt or felter, definite plural felta or feltene)

1. field

From Middle Low German velt

felt m (definite singular felten, uncountable)

1. field (in the military sense)

• feltarbeid (from English)
• feltprest
• feltrasjon

felt

1. past participle of felle

• “felt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• NAOB

From German Feld

felt n (definite singular feltet, indefinite plural felt, definite plural felta)

1. field

From Middle Low German velt

felt m (definite singular felten, uncountable)

1. field (in the military sense)

• feltarbeid (from English)
• feltprest
• feltrasjon

felt

1. past participle of fella

• “felt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *felþą.

felt n

1. field

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: velt
  • Dutch: veld

• “felt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *feltaz.

• IPA^(key): /felt/, [felt]

felt m

1. felt

• Middle English: felt
  • Scots: felt
  • English: felt

• IPA^(key): [félt], [fé̞lt]

felt n

1. (neuter, impersonal, as an adverb) urgent, necessary, pressing, important

   Fäll var ä felt

   Certainly it was necessary.

   Hä jär int na felt om hä

   There is no hurry therewith.