Felt vs Fele - What's the difference?
felt | fele |
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.
* Shakespeare, King Lear , act 4, scene 6:
A hat made of felt.
(obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
* 1707 , John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry :
To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
To cover with, or as if with, felt.
(feel)
That has been experienced or perceived.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 257:
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Greatly, much, very
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Much; many.
Many (of).
*, Book V:
*:And fele of thy footmen ar brought oute of lyff, and many worshypfull presoners ar yolden into oure handys.
As a verb felt
is to fear something.As a noun fele is
honeycomb.felt
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) felt, from (etyl) ), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.Noun
(wikipedia felt) (-)- It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt .
- To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Matthew Hale)
- to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.
Statistics
*fele
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Alternative forms
* (l)Adverb
- For they bring in the substance of the Beere / That they drinken feele too good chepe, not dere.'' ? ''Hakluyts Voyages .
Adjective
(er)- Any maner of thynges desyryt..heraftyr may be had and ygrawnt by the fellyst of the sayd comynes.'' — dated 1456 from J.T. Gilbert, ''Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin , vol. 1 (1889)
