• IPA: /fɛlt/

felt

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.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, 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.

• 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

• French: feutre, feutrine
• German: Filz
• Italian: feltro
• Portuguese: feltro
• Russian: фетр
• Spanish: fieltro

• French: feutre
• German: Filzhut
• Portuguese: feltro

felt (felts, present participle felting; past and past participle felted)

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

• German: filzen
• Portuguese: feltrar

• Portuguese: feltrar

1. Simple past tense and past participle of feel

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.

1. Surname

felt (plural felts)

1. (astronomy) Acronym of fast-evolving luminous transient a type of supernova