feathered

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 […]

• befeathered

feathered

1. simple past and past participle of feather

• defeather