Felt vs Windbreak - What's the difference?
felt | windbreak |
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:
(agriculture) a hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops
a sheet or stack of material used to protect people or fire from wind
* June 1964 , Darrell Huff, Sun-Catching Windbreak Popular Science, Bonnier Corporation, page 112:
* 2000 , Darrell Huff, Settlement: A History Of Australian Indigenous Housing , Aboriginal Studies Press, page 19:
* 2008 , Paul Memmott, Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia , University of Queensland Press, page 62:
As a verb felt
is to fear something.As a noun windbreak is
(agriculture) a hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops.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.
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English
Noun
(wikipedia windbreak) (en noun)- I built my windbreak on a second-story wooden deck, as you can see above, but it would work just as well at ground level.
- Although Birdibil was warm in his family wungkurr'' or windbreak that night, lying next to a crackling fire and covered with some paperbark blankets (''kawan ), he had little sleep.
- A wide range of materials was used for windbreaks , including rigid bark sheets inserted in sand, piles of grass or foliage, and stone walls.