featherstitch

English

a curved feather stitch

Etymology

feather +‎ stitch

Noun

featherstitch (plural featherstitches)

1. A kind of embroidery stitch made of open, looped stitches worked alternately to the right and left of a central rib.

Verb

featherstitch (third-person singular simple present featherstitches, present participle featherstitching, simple past and past participle featherstitched)

1. To make stitches of this kind.