feather
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Is feather a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (hunting, in the plural) Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).in-plural
2. (rail transport) A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.Examples: "Signal M123 is a conventional 3-aspect colour light with three Junction Indicators - commonly known as 'feathers'."
3. (cricket) A faint edge.
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.ambitransitive
2. (aeronautics) 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.Examples: "After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the damaged left engine’s propeller."
3. (carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
4. (computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
5. (intransitive) Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.Examples: "Whether or not the ink feathers depends upon the paper or card, and also upon the nature of the dye in the ink."intransitive
6. (transitive) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.Examples: "c. 1650, Robert Loveday, letter to Mr. C. The Polonian story, which perhaps may feather some tedious hours."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary