feather

feather is a 7-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 12 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
2. noun. Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
3. noun. The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
4. noun. A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
5. noun. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
6. noun. A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
7. noun. A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
8. noun. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
9. transitive verb. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
10. transitive verb. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
11. transitive verb. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
12. transitive verb. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
13. transitive verb. To tread, as a cock.
14. intransitive verb. To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
15. intransitive verb. To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
16. intransitive verb. To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
17. intransitive verb. To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
18. noun. turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls

    Synonyms: feathering

19. noun. the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds

    Synonyms: plumage, plume

20. verb. grow feathers

    "The young sparrows are fledging already"

    Synonyms: fledge

21. verb. turn the oar, while rowing

    Synonyms: square

22. verb. turn the paddle; in canoeing

    Synonyms: square

23. verb. cover or fit with feathers
24. verb. join tongue and groove, in carpentry

Synonyms

feathering, plumage, plume, fledge, square

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in feather:

terefah

Common word forms

feathers, feathered, featherer, feathering, featherless

Words from these letters

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