Obs. rare. [f. FELTER v.]

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  1.  Felting or tangle; = FELTERING vbl. sb.

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1615.  Markham, The English House-wife, II. v. (1668), 125. If you find any hard knot or other felter in the Wooll, which will not open, though it be never so small, yet you shall pick it out.

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  2.  A kind of worm or maggot found in the skins of cattle. More fully feller-worm. [Perh. a distinct word.]

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1607.  Markham, Cavelarice, VII. 85. To kill the warble or felter, bathe your horse either in stronglye, or with burnt sacke and vinegar mixt together.

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1639.  T. de Gray, Compl. Horsem., 38. This is most profitable for … the felter-worme.

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