felt
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.
Noun 3 meanings
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.
A hat made of felt.
A felt-tip pen.
Verb 4 meanings
To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
To cover with, or as if with, felt.
“to felt the cylinder of a steam engine”
To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.
To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).
Adjective 1 meaning
That has been experienced or perceived.
Etymology
From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'.
FELT at a glance
FELT has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (F 4 + E 1 + L 1 + T 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #736 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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