Felt
From Hull AWE
Several homonyms felt exist in English.
- The past forms of the irregular verb 'tofeel' are felt.
- OED records four nouns felt:
- The predominant meaning of the (normally non-count noun felt is 'a textile made by compressing [e.g. wool] into a smooth mass with a matted surface'. This has ben used for millennia as material for tents, wall coverings, clothing, insulation, and sound-proofing.
- An obsolete Scots felt meant '[physiological] stone, as in gall-stones'.
- Felt is also a local name for a bird, the fieldfare or the mistle thrush.
- Felt is also a local variant of 'fell' in the sense of 'skin of an animal', 'a hide'.
- The predominant meaning of the (normally non-count noun felt is 'a textile made by compressing [e.g. wool] into a smooth mass with a matted surface'. This has ben used for millennia as material for tents, wall coverings, clothing, insulation, and sound-proofing.
