felt

Etymology 1

From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

noun

1. 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.
2. A hat made of felt.
3. A felt-tip pen.
   You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels. 1989, Anne D. Forester, Margaret Reinhard, The Learners' Way, page 116
4. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
   To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. 1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry

verb

1. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
2. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.
   to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
3. (transitive, poker) To cause a player to lose all their chips.

Etymology 2

Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of feel

adj

1. That has been experienced or perceived.
   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. 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 257