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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.
- Quotations
- It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with . — Shakespeare, King Lear, IV-vi
- A hat made of felt. — Thynne
- (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
Translations: - Dutch: vilt
- French: feutre , feutrine
- German: Filzhut
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- Spanish: fieltro
verb
- (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. — Sir M. Hale
- (transitive) To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.
Translations: - German: filzen
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(trans-top, cover with felt)
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