Fewter vs Felter - What's the difference?

fewter | felter |


As verbs the difference between fewter and felter

is that fewter is to rest (a spear) in its fewter while felter is to clot or mat together like felt.

As a noun fewter

is a support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.

fewter

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.
  • *1994 , (Jeanette Winterson), Art & Lies :
  • *:From heaven the spear-light vertical in its fewter .

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To rest (a spear) in its fewter.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.4:
  • *:His speare he feutred , and at him it bore, / But with no better fortune than the rest afore.

    • felter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To clot or mat together like felt.
  • * Fairfax
    • 'His feltered locks that on his bosom fell.
    (Webster 1913) ----