Definitions for feather

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feather feath·er

Spelling: [feth -er]

IPA: /ˈfɛð ər/

Feather is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in feather (aeefhrt).

Definitions for feather

noun

1. one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
2. kind; character; nature:
3. something like a feather, as a tuft or fringe of hair.
4. something very light, small, or trivial:
5. Archery. one of the vanes at the tail of an arrow or dart.
6. Carpentry. a spline for joining the grooved edges of two boards.
7. Masonry. See under plug and feathers.
8. a featherlike flaw, especially in a precious stone.
9. Machinery. feather key.
10. Archaic. attire.
11. Obsolete. plumage.

Idioms

1. a feather in one's cap, a praiseworthy accomplishment; distinction; honor:
2. birds of a feather. bird (def 15).
3. feather one's nest, to take advantage of the opportunities to enrich oneself:
4. in fine / high feather, in good form, humor, or health:
5. ruffle someone's feathers, to anger, upset, or annoy (another person).
6. smooth one's ruffled / rumpled feathers, to regain one's composure; become calm:

Verb phrases

1. feather into, South Midland U.S. to attack (a person, task, or problem) vigorously.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with feathers, as an arrow.
2. to clothe or cover with or as with feathers.
3. Rowing. to turn (an oar) after a stroke so that the blade becomes nearly horizontal, and hold it thus as it is moved back into position for the next stroke.
4. Aeronautics. to change the blade angle of (a propeller) so that the chords of the blades are approximately parallel to the line of flight. to turn off (an engine) while in flight.

verb (used without object)

1. to grow feathers.
2. to be or become feathery in appearance.
3. to move like feathers.
4. Rowing. to feather an oar.

Origin of feather

before 900; Middle English, Old English fether; cognate with Dutch veder, German Feder, Old Norse fjǫthr; akin to Greek pterón, Sanskrit pátram wing, feather

Examples for feather

But Cruz and Paul are speaking to significantly different audiences, despite being wacko birds of a feather.

Better to strike the rear guard than to feather a shaft in the earth.

They're doing their best, but they're fighting a dinosaur with a feather.

He thought Redskins was funny, just as he thought the war paint and feather headdress he made the head coach wear were funny.

feather had recorded as a pianist, and although he would never put Oscar Peterson out of business, he knew his sharps and flats.

This was no master-charioteer, but a mere lad, a feather riding the wind.

The Cessna landed like a feather on Bettles Field, a long, flat airstrip built by the Navy during World War II.

He has conspired against me, like the rest, and they are but birds of one feather.

His ears hummed and rang, and his brain swam as light as a feather.

You could have knocked me over with a feather when Bartlett sprang it on me this morning.