feather
/ˈfɛðɚ/ verbo C2- 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. · The stylist feathered my hair.
- To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
- 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. · After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the damaged left engine’s propeller.
- To finely shave or bevel an edge.
- To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
- Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
He/she/it feathers · Pasado feathered · Participio pasado feathered · Forma en -ing feathering
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Later on she made her bed less successfully, for she had never learned the art of wrestling with a feather tick.
In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.
Birds of a feather flock together.
“It is a double grief to me,” he exclaimed, “that I should perish by an arrow feathered from my own wings.”
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