Felt vs. Pelt — What's the Difference?

Felt is a textile material that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers together. Felt can be made of natural fibers such as wool or animal fur, or from synthetic fibers such as petroleum-based acrylic or acrylonitrile or wood pulp-based rayon.

The skin of an animal with the fur or hair still on it.

A fabric of matted, compressed animal fibers, such as wool or fur, sometimes mixed with vegetable or synthetic fibers.

A stripped animal skin ready for tanning.

A material resembling this fabric.

To strike or assail repeatedly with thrown objects

Something made of this fabric.

The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).

Made of, relating to, or resembling felt.

The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.

To make into felt.

The fur or hair of a living animal.

To cover with felt.

Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.

To press or mat (something) together.

(obsolete)

To become like felt; mat together.

A garment made from animal skins.

Past tense and past participle of feel.

(falconry) The body of any quarry killed by a hawk; also, a dead bird given to a hawk for food.

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.

A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.

A hat made of felt.

A blow or stroke from something thrown.

A felt-tip pen.

A verbal insult; a jeer, a jibe, a taunt.

(obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

A fit of anger; an outburst, a rage.

(transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

An act of moving quickly; a rush.

(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.

A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.

To cause a player to lose all their chips.

(by extension) Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.

Simple past tense and past participle of feel

Alternative form of pelta

That has been experienced or perceived.

(historical) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptical form, or crescent-shaped.

A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers 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.

(botany) A flat apothecium with no rim.

A hat made of felt.

To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.

A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.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.

Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.

A fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers

To remove feathers from (a bird).

Mat together and make felt-like;

(transitive)

Cover with felt;

To bombard (someone or something) with missiles.

Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like;

To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles.

Of a number of small objects (such as raindrops), or the sun's rays: to beat down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower.

Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at.

To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something).

(figuratively) To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult.

(intransitive)

Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down.

(figuratively) To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.

Chiefly followed by at: to bombard someone or something with missiles continuously.

(obsolete) To throw out harsh words; to show anger.

To bargain for a better deal; to haggle.

The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.

The human skin.

The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.

A blow or stroke from something thrown.

To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.

To throw; to use as a missile.

To throw missiles.

To throw out words.

The dressed hairy coat of a mammal

Body covering of a living animal

Cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile;

Attack and bombard with or as if with missiles;

Rain heavily;