feathered
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Adjective
feathered
- Covered with feathers.
- (rowing) Having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Having a finely bevelled edge.
- (Appalachia) Badly beaten.
- (in combination) Having a specific type or number of feathers.
- a blue-feathered bird
- (poetic) Swift, like the flight of a feathered creature.
- (poetic) Covered or adorned with something, as if with feathers.
- 1869, Mark Twain, chapter XLVIII, in The Innocents Abroad, page 508:
- […] when at night he sees moon and stars, mountain ridges feathered with pines, jutting white capes, bold promontories […]
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Translations
covered with feathers
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Verb
feathered
- simple past and past participle of feather
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