felter

See also: Felter

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɛltə(ɹ)/
Rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)

Verb

felter (third-person singular simple present felters, present participle feltering, simple past and past participle feltered)

To clot or mat together like felt.
- 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
  His feltered locks that on his bosom fell.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “felter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Feltre, Telfer, lefter, refelt, reflet, tréflé

Danish

Noun

felter n

indefinite plural of felt

Middle English

Alternative forms

veltere

Etymology

From felten +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɛltər(ə)/

Noun

felter (rare)

A person who uses felt to manufacture items.

References

“felter(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-11.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

felt

Noun

felter n

indefinite plural of felt

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