What does "felt" mean?
Felt: A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers 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. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. Shak .
Additional senses
- 2.A hat made of felt. Thynne.
- 3.A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.] To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. Mortimer.
- 4.To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. Sir M. Hale.
- 5.To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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