dial. [? a confusion of FELL sb.1, FELT sb.1, PELT sb.] A skin or hide.

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1708.  Mortimer, Husb. (ed. 2), 179. To know whether they [sheep] are sound or not, see that none of the Wooll be wanting, that their Gums be red, Teeth white and even, the Felt loose, the Wooll fast, the Breath sweet, and the Feet not hot.

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1783.  Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), 11, Exuviæ … (3) The skin, felt, or hide, of a beast, taken from the flesh.

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1888.  Elworthy, W. Somerset Word-bk., Felt, raw hide; dried untanned skin of any animal.

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