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felte

felte is the archaic spelling of felt.

Meaning of felt

Verb

felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted)

  1. (transitive) To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
    • the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Sergea. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […]...
  2. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.
    • to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
  3. (transitive) To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.
  4. (Internet, broadly, transitive) To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).

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Questions about felte

What is felte the archaic spelling of?
Felte is the archaic spelling of felt.

Words near felte in the dictionary

  1. felt-tips
  2. feltch
  3. feltched
  4. feltches
  5. feltching
  6. felte
  7. felted
  8. Felten
  9. Feltens
  10. felter
  11. feltered

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