feathering

Meaning of feathering

verb
  1. To cover or furnish with feathers.
  2. To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
    The stylist feathered my hair.
  3. To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
  4. 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.
    After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the left, damaged engine’s propeller.
  5. To finely shave or bevel an edge.
  6. To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
  7. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
  8. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
  9. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
  10. To tread, as a cock.
  11. To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim
noun
  1. Plumage.
  2. A feathered texture.
  3. The fitting of feathers to arrows.
  4. An arrangement of small arcs or foils separated by projecting cusps, frequently forming the feather-like ornament on the inner mouldings of arches.

Information about feathering

  • The plural form of feathering is: featherings.
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Hyphenation of feathering

feath-er-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • feathering is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

feathering synonyms

Meaning feather:

feather

Words that rhyme with feathering

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