felter

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛltə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)

felter (third-person singular simple present felters, present participle feltering, simple past and past participle feltered)

1. (archaic) To clot, tangle, or mat together, such as like felt.
   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Fourth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:

     His feltered locks that on his bosom fell.

felter (plural felters)

1. A person who works with or makes felt; a feltmaker.
   • 1720, John Stow, edited by John Strype, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, volume 2, page 239, col. 1:

     Those Spanish Wools for Felters were not Fleece Wools.

   • 2007, Christine White, Uniquely Felt, page 77:

     This is the mark of an experienced felter and the way to monitor the very subtle changes in the late stages of feltmaking

• “felter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Feltre, Telfer, lefter, refelt, reflet, tréflé

felter n

1. indefinite plural of felt

• veltere

From felten +‎ -ere (suffix forming agent nouns).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛltər(ə)/

felter (rare)

1. A person who uses felt to manufacture items.

• “felter(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 September 2018.

• felt

felter n

1. indefinite plural of felt