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)

1. To clot or mat together like felt.
   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Fourth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Noun

felter (plural felters)

1. A person who works with or makes felt; a feltmaker.
   • 1720, John Stow, edited by John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, volume 2, page 239/2:

     Those Spanish Wools for Felters were not Fleece Wools.

   • 2007, Christine White, Uniquely Felt, page 77:

     This is the mark of an experienced felter and the way to monitor the very subtle changes in the late stages of feltmaking

Anagrams

• Feltre, Telfer, lefter, refelt, reflet, tréflé

Danish

Noun

felter n

1. indefinite plural of felt

Middle English

Alternative forms

• veltere

Etymology

From felten +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛltər(ə)/

Noun

felter (rare)

1. 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

1. indefinite plural of felt