feather

IPA: fˈɛðɝ

A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
(hunting, in the plural) Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
(rail transport) A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
A surname.
An English surname originating as an occupation.
An anglicized Americanized German surname from German, equivalent to English Feather.

To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
(transitive, intransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
(aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
(carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
(computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
(intransitive) Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
(transitive) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
(transitive) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
(transitive) To tread, as a cockerel.
(snooker, billiards) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
(snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
(transitive) To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
(transitive) To move softly, like a feather.

Examples of "feather" in Sentences

The cock bird has fancy feathers.
The feathers of the herons are soft.
The feathers are crimped and straight.
Why does my bird pluck out his feathers
They knew the bristle is a bird's feather.
The feathers are meticulously kept clean by the bird.
Bird's feather has been used for pillow for a long time.
The hackle is a feather plume that is attached to the headdress.
The mask had fabulous decoration with bird's feather and crystals.
As moulting birds preen, they remove the waxy coating, and the feather unfurls.
It was very dark, and I knew that as our sails were set, and we bore from her, it would be difficult for her to keep us in sight, as we only presented what we call the feather-edge of our sails to her.
Com that the rancorous debate over the future of this seemingly innocuous civic cub catering to foreign airheads has taken a decidedly nasty turn and I´m beginning to wonder just where this anachronistic club in last feather is heading except into the mire.