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Feather

noun

The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds. Synonyms: plumage, plume.

Turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls. Synonym: feathering.

verb

(past & past part. feathered; pres. part. feathering)

Join tongue and groove, in carpentry.

Cover or fit with feathers.

Turn the paddle; in canoeing. Synonym: square.

Turn the oar, while rowing. Synonym: square.

Grow feathers. Synonym: fledge.

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"Feather" Quotes from Famous Books

... out with motions too fast for the eye to follow. Jim Silent stepped back a half pace, shifted his weight, and drove his fist straight at that white face. How it happened not a man in the room could tell, but the hand did not strike home. Dan had swerved aside as lightly as a wind-blown feather and his fist rapped against Silent's ribs with a force that ...

— The Untamed • Max Brand

... had passed, John Claverhouse came plodding up the bed of the stream. Bellona was ambling about him, and they were in high feather, her short, snappy barks mingling with his deeper chest-notes. Arrived at the pool, he threw down the dip-net and sack, and drew from his hip-pocket what looked like a large, fat candle. But I knew it to be a stick of "giant"; for such was his method of catching trout. He dynamited ...

— Moon-Face and Other Stories • Jack London

... the Piazza Colonna. They bowed. The thin, sour-looking painter was walking with a beardless young German, red and snub-nosed. This young man was a painter too, Cortes said; he wore a green hat with a cock's feather, a blue cape, thick eyeglasses, big boots, and had a certain air of being ...

— Caesar or Nothing • Pio Baroja Baroja

... in two I saw thar had been a row. Her notion to have you on hand at sech a time as that may seem odd, but women are all odd. They want what other women can't have, and I reckon Het thinks it would be a sort o' feather in 'er cap to mourn in public over one husband while she's leanin' agin another that is ready ...

— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben

... of which the King had had long attacks, induced Fagon to swaddle him, so to say, every evening in a heap of feather pillows, which made him sweat all night to such an extent that it was necessary in the morning to rub him down and change his linen before the grand chamberlain and the first gentleman of the chamber could enter. For many years he had drunk nothing but Burgundy wine, half mixed with water, ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

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