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feathering en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Plumage.
2. (countable, uncountable) A feathered texture.
   • The whole flower is very small; the tube is faintly marked with lilac lines; the petals are concave, the three outer white, marked with three lines, the middle one narrow, without featherings, the outer ones broader, and neatly feathered […] 1834, Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants:
3. (countable, uncountable) The fitting of feathers to arrows.
4. (countable, uncountable) An arrangement of small arcs or foils separated by projecting cusps, frequently forming the feather-like ornament on the inner mouldings of arches.
5. (countable, uncountable) Visible offshoots of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.

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Deriveds

feathering strip

feathering en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of feather
   form of feather