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Webster 1913 Edition
Feathering
Feath′er-ing
,Noun.
2.
The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See
To feather an oar
, under Feather
, Verb.
T.
3.
A covering of feathers.
Feathering float
(Naut.)
, the float or paddle of a feathering wheel.
– Feathering screw
(Naut.)
, a screw propeller, of which the blades may be turned so as to move edgewise through the water when the vessel is moving under sail alone.
– Feathering wheel
(Naut.)
, a paddle wheel whose floats turn automatically so as to dip about perpendicularly into the water and leave in it the same way, avoiding beating on the water in the descent and lifting water in the ascent.
Definition 2024
feathering
feathering
English
Verb
feathering
- present participle of feather
Noun
feathering (plural featherings)
- A feathered texture.
- 1834, Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants
- 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