feathering

About 0.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of feather
2. noun Plumage.
3. noun A feathered texture.
4. noun The fitting of feathers to arrows.
5. noun An arrangement of small arcs or foils separated by projecting cusps, frequently forming the feather-like ornament on the inner mouldings of arches.
6. noun Visible offshoots of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.

Similar words

propeller propellers plumage plume plumule basic plumage pluma flight feather alternate plumage pinfeather

Often followed by

of the and their his on is in her

Word family

featherings