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I just spoke to Wings scout Mark Howe, a long-time NHL player, and he said he didn't think the hit looked that bad - he said that most likely, what Hossa felt was a stinger, a temporary numbness.

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  1. noun A fabric of matted, compressed animal fibers, such as wool or fur, sometimes mixed with vegetable or synthetic fibers.
  2. noun A material resembling this fabric.
  3. noun Something made of this fabric.
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  • Wiki, who had come to like him while they were conversing in Portuguese, felt a stab of awful sadness. —  AHMM,Jan-Feb2006
  • It had been one tenth admiration he had felt, and nine tenths pure lust. —  Mary Balogh - Silent Melody
  • I felt, as we all felt, that he snatched from our very navel the cry, 'Yes, we swear. —  The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
  • Just for the moment Margot felt again the old childish thrill of apprehension which this tempestuous personality had always engendered in her whenever they met again after a little time. —  Deadly Duo: ‘Wanted, someone innocent’—‘Last act’ - Margery Allingham
  • Margot felt the blood rushing into her face as the savage stab at her vanity made its wound, but something horribly intelligent in the bright blue eyes warned her and she caught a glimpse of his purpose. —  Deadly Duo: ‘Wanted, someone innocent’—‘Last act’ - Margery Allingham
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  1. Middle English, from Old English; see pel-5 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English felt, from Anglo-Saxon felt = Dutch vilt = Low German filt = Old High German Middle High German G. filz = Swedish Danish filt, felt; hence (from Low German) Middle Latin feltrum, filtrum, later Italian feltro = Spanish fieltro = Provencal feutre = Old French feutre, fautre, French feutre = Middle Greek ἀφέλετρον, felt: see felter and filter, and cf. feuter.
  2. from Middle English felten; from felt n.
 

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