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To cover or furnish with feathers.

To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.

Example: The stylist feathered my hair.

To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.

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.

Example: After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the left, damaged engine’s propeller.

Plumage.

A feathered texture.

The fitting of feathers to arrows.

An arrangement of small arcs or foils separated by projecting cusps, frequently forming the feather-like ornament on the inner mouldings of arches.