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Spelling: [feth -erd]

IPA: /ˈfɛð ərd/

Feathered is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 271 anagrams from letters in feathered (adeeefhrt).

Definitions for feathered

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:

adjective

1. clothed, covered, or provided with feathers, as a bird or an arrow.
2. quick; rapid; speedy; swift:
3. (of a veneer) cut to show a figure resembling a plume.

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 feathered

before 1000; Middle English fethered, Old English gefetherede, see feather, -ed³

Examples for feathered

Weitz was tarred and feathered for the whitewash, an experience “that killed me,” he said the other day.

feathered Mardi Gras Indians marched attendees into the first session.

The feathered hooks tempt them, and they rise freely to the lure.

She would like some feathered snacks, And when he leaves, the cat attacks!

Tyson is, of course, a fan of our feathered friends, owning an army of 2,000 pigeons.

Nicolas Chartier has been tarred and feathered in Hollywood for negative Oscar campaigning.

I cannot long spare my wisdom, for who would guide the feathered folk?

He swept off his feathered hat, and made them a leg very elegantly.

You always choose February to moult in, and you will have to be feathered down there.

Ventura did have more qualifications for elected office than simply wearing a feathered boa while grappling in the wrestling ring.