felt

Felt cloths.

Meanings

Noun

Verb

  • To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
  • To cover with, or as if with, felt.
  • To cause a player to lose all their chips.
  • Past of feel

Adjective

Origin

  • From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus ("felt"), Old Church Slavonic плъсть, Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.
  • Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.

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