| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. Signifies an entity that feathers, based on the verb feather.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (feather) | 1. Join tongue and groove, in carpentry.[Wordnet]. 2. Cover or fit with feathers.[Wordnet]. 3. Turn the paddle; in canoeing.[Wordnet]. 4. Turn the oar, while rowing.[Wordnet]. 5. Grow feathers.[Wordnet]. 6. Grow feathers; "The young sparrows are fledging already".[Wordnet]. 7. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.[Websters]. 8. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.[Websters]. 9. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.[Websters]. 10. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.[Websters]. 11. To tread, as a cock.[Websters]. 12. To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.[Websters]. 13. To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers.[Websters]. 14. To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.[Websters]. 15. To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.[Websters]. 16. Base verb from the following inflections: feathering, feathered, feathers, featherer, featherers, featheringly and featheredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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"FEATHERER" is a common misspelling or typo for: feathered, featherers. |
Specialty Definition: FEATHERER
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Occupations | Trims wooden handles of hammers, axes, and hatchets, using portable power chisel, to remove curled shavings (feathers) raised on handle by steel edges of eye when tool head is driven onto handle. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: feather
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Alere Little Feather | Alere Little Feather (real name Janel Horton) is a professional wrestler. (references) | ||
| Birds of a Feather | Birds of a Feather is the name of a successful situation comedy shown on BBC1 in the United Kingdom between 1989 and 1998. (references) | ||
| Cock feather | (Archery), the feather of an arrow at right angles to the direction of the cock or notch. --Nares. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Contour feather | Feathers covering the body of an adult bird and determining its shape. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Down feather | Soft fine feathers. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Essen Feather | The Essen Feather (German: Essener Feder) is an award for German-style board games, given at the Deutscher Spiele Preis ceremony at the October game fair in Essen, Germany. The award is given to games with well-written rules, as it was felt that too many good games were spoilt by incomprehensible rules. (references) | ||
| Feather (step) | Feather or Feather step is the name of a dance figure in the International Style Foxtrot . Depending on a syllabus, it consists of three or four steps (man stepping basically forward), with the third step (right foot) done outside the lady (lady on the right side) with a slight turn in the body position to the right. The latter turn gave the name to the step, as an allusion to the "feathering the oar" action in rowing. (references) | ||
| Feather alum | (Min.), a hydrous sulphate of alumina, resulting from volcanic action, and from the decomposition of iron pyrites; -- called also halotrichite . --Ure. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Feather ball | A low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines; northeastern Mexico. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Feather bed | 1: A bed filled with feathers. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A mattress stuffed with feathers. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
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Specialty Expressions: feather
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Birds of a feather | Computing | Birds Of a Feather (BOF) (From the saying "Birds of a feather flock together") An informal discussion group, scheduled on a conference program or formed ad hoc, to consider a specific issue or subject. It is not clear where or when this term originated, but it is now associated with the USENIX conferences for Unix techies and was already established there by 1984. It was used earlier than that at DECUS conferences and is reported to have been common at SHARE meetings as far back as the early 1960s. (1994-10-11). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
| Birds of a feather | Slang in 1811 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER. Rogues of the same gang. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Broken Feather | Literature | 1: (A ). A broken feather in his wing. A scandal connected with one's character. 2: "If an angel were to walk about, Mrs. Sam Hurst would never rest till she had found out where he came from; and perhaps whether he had a broken feather in his wing."- Mrs. Oliphant: Phoebe. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Bull's feather | Slang in 1811 | BULL'S FEATHER. A horn: he wears the bull's feather; he is a cuckold. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Cap and Feather Days | Literature | 1: The time of childhood. 2: "Here I was got into the scenes of my cap-and-feather days."- Cobbett. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Feather alum | Mining | See: alunogen; halotrichite. (references) | |
| Feather amphibolite | Mining | A metamorphic rock in which porphyroblastic crystals of amphibole (usually hornblende) tend to form stellate or sheaf-like groups on the planes of foliation or schistosity. Cf: amphibolite. (references) | |
| Feather edge | Mining | A. The thin end of a wedge-shaped piece of rock or coal.b. A sharp edge, such as that produced when a brick is cut lengthwise from corner to corner to produce a triangular cross section. See also: knife edge. (references) | |
| Feather ends | Mining | Firebricks with tapered ends. (references) | |
| Feather gypsum | Mining | See: satin spar. (references) | |
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