feathered

English

Adjective

feathered

1. Covered with feathers.
2. (rowing) Having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion.
3. (engineering, manufacturing) Having a finely bevelled edge.
4. (Appalachia) Badly beaten.
5. (in combination) Having a specific type or number of feathers.

   a blue-feathered bird

6. (poetic) Swift, like the flight of a feathered creature.
7. (poetic) Covered or adorned with something, as if with feathers.
   • 1869, Mark Twain, chapter XLVIII, in The Innocents Abroad, page 508:

     […] when at night he sees moon and stars, mountain ridges feathered with pines, jutting white capes, bold promontories […]

Synonyms

• befeathered

Derived terms

• feathered folk
• feathered friend
• feathered oof-bird
• fine-feathered friend

 

Translations

covered with feathers

• Dutch: bevederd (nl)
• French: emplumé (fr)
• German: gefiedert (de), mit Federn besetzt, gefedert (de)
• Irish: eiteach
• Italian: pennuto (it) m
• Latin: pennātus, penniger
• Polish: opierzony, pierzasty (pl), upierzony
• Portuguese: emplumado, empenado
• Russian: перна́тый (ru) (pernátyj)
• Spanish: emplumado (es)
• Volapük: plümilabik, (older term) penik (vo)

Verb

feathered

1. simple past and past participle of feather

Anagrams

• defeather