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English Dictionary: feathering by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
feathering
n
  1. turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls [syn: feather, feathering]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Feather \Feath"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Feathered}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Feathering.}]
      1. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a
            cap.
  
                     An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow
                     feathered from her own wing.               --L'Estrange.
  
      2. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
  
                     A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow
                     ravines.                                             --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      3. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.[R.]
  
                     The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedions
                     hours.                                                --Loveday.
  
      4. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
  
                     They stuck not to say that the king cared not to
                     plume his nobility and people to feather himself.
                                                                              --Bacon.
            --Dryden.
  
      5. To tread, as a cock. --Dryden.
  
      {To feather one's nest}, to provide for one's self especially
            from property belonging to another, confided to one's
            care; -- an expression taken from the practice of birds
            which collect feathers for the lining of their nests.
  
      {To feather an oar} (Naut), to turn it when it leaves the
            water so that the blade will be horizontal and offer the
            least resistance to air while reaching for another stroke.
           
  
      {To tar and feather a person}, to smear him with tar and
            cover him with feathers, as a punishment or an indignity.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Feathering \Feath"er*ing\, n.
      1. (Arch.) Same as {Foliation}.
  
      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}, v. 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.
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