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Felts vs Pelts - What's the difference?

felts | pelts |

As verbs the difference between felts and pelts

is that felts is third-person singular of felt while pelts is third-person singular of pelt.

felts

English

Verb

(head)
  • (felt)

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    felt

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) felt, from (etyl) ), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

    Noun

    (wikipedia felt) (-)
  • 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:
    • It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt .
  • A hat made of felt.
  • (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
  • * 1707 , John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry :
    • To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
    Related terms
    * felt grain: the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. — Knight * felt-tip pen * coated felt sheet * saturated felt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
    • (Sir Matthew Hale)
  • To cover with, or as if with, felt.
    • to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (feel)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has been experienced or perceived.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 257:
    • 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.

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    pelts

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pelt)

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    pelt

    English

    (wikipedia pelt)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) pelette, diminutive of from the same Old French and Latin roots.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved]] with the hairy or [[wool, woolly covering on it.
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  • *:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
  • The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
  • (lb) Human skin.
  • :(Dryden)
    • Related terms
    * fell * pelisse * pell * pellagra * pellage * pellicle * peltry * surplice

    Etymology 2

    Possible contraction of pellet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bombard, as with missiles.
    • They pelted the attacking army with bullets.
  • To throw; to use as a missile.
    • The children pelted apples at us.
  • To heavily.
    • It's pelting down out there!
  • To throw out words.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Another smothered seems to pelt and swear.
  • To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
  • To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
    • The boy pelted down the hill on his toboggan.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blow or stroke from something thrown.

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