Definitions for feathers

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feathers feath·er

Spelling: [feth -er]

IPA: /ˈfɛð ər/

Feathers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 348 anagrams from letters in feathers (aeefhrst).

Definitions for feathers

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.
12. an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.

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 feathers

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 feathers

He plucked them and flushed the feathers carefully, so as not to block up the toilets and draw attention.

This is misleading for everyone, and particularly offensive to those who have earned the honor of wearing their feathers.

Spilling from the old vehicle were hippies of all eras decked out in tie-dye and top hats bejeweled with feathers and beads.

The 18-year-old strutted down the runway Monday in an edgy, off-the-shoulder, red-and-black tweed ensemble accented with feathers.

(feather-equipment), the feathers of the shaft of the arrow: dat.

These feathers were the steel-headed arrows that had so tormented them.

Did Donald hesitate whether his bed was to be on feathers or branches?

Ben Haley meanwhile was rapidly stripping the chicken of its feathers.

Burlesque artists are often in it for the costumes, spending what they earn on fabric, feathers, and crystals.

Little by little, he gathered a store of feathers great and small.