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felter

/ˈfɛltə(ɹ)/

felter verb: to clot, tangle, or mat together, such as like felt.

Verb

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

  1. (archaic) To clot, tangle, or mat together, such as like felt.
    • His feltered locks that on his bosom fell.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]...

Noun

felter (plural felters)

  1. A person who works with or makes felt; a feltmaker.
    • Those Spanish Wools for Felters were not Fleece Wools.1720, John Stow, edited by John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, volume 2, page 239, col. 1
    • This is the mark of an experienced felter and the way to monitor the very subtle changes in the late stages of feltmaking2007, Christine White, Uniquely Felt, page 77

Proper noun capitalized: Felter

Felter (plural Felters)

  1. A surname.

felter meaning in Tamil

felter in Tamil

விலக்கடி, வளைத்துவைத்தல்

Forms of felter

Verb
third-person singular presentfelters
present participlefeltering
past participlefeltered
pastfeltered
Noun
pluralfelters
Proper noun
pluralFelters

Words that rhyme with felter

Questions about felter

What does felter mean?
Felter means to clot, tangle, or mat together, such as like felt.
What is felter in Tamil?
Felter in Tamil is விலக்கடி, வளைத்துவைத்தல். See Felter meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is felter?
Felter can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce felter?
Felter is pronounced /ˈfɛltə(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of felter?
The past tense of felter is feltered.

Words near felter in the dictionary

  1. feltching
  2. felte
  3. felted
  4. Felten
  5. Feltens
  6. felter
  7. feltered
  8. feltering
  9. felters
  10. feltest
  11. Feltham

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Adapted from Wiktionary: felter (page history and authors); Felter (page history and authors); felter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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