feather
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airon kääntäminen lappeelleen
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pontata
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höyhen
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feather englanniksi
A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
{{quote-text|en|year=1873|author=W. K. Brooks|chapter=A Feather|title=Popular Science Monthly|volume=IV|page=687
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Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
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A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "of a feather").
(RQ:Shakespeare Timon of Athens)
One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as (w) or and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.(R:Knight AM)
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
{{quote-text|en|year=1823|title=An Ecclesiastical Memoir of Essex Street Religious Society
Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called ''fur'').
A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
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(RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop)
{{quote-book|en|year=1912|author=Frances|title=Object-lessons on Temperance, Or, The Indian Maiden and Her White Deer|page=117
{{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Thomas Perry|title=Vanishing Act|publisher=Ballantine Books|isbn=9780307417633|page=302
To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
(RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 1)
To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
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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.
To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
{{quote-journal|en|year=1940|journal=Circular of the Bureau of Standards|issue=426-451|page=50
To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
c. 1650, Robert Loveday, ''letter to Mr. C.''
- The Polonian story, which perhaps may feather some tedious hours.
To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
{{RQ:Bacon Henry 7
(RQ:Dryden Fables)He feather'd her a hundred times a day.
To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the ball.
To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
{{quote-book|en|year=2001|author=Joan Hohl|title=Maybe Tomorrow|publisher=Zebra Books|isbn=9780821773499|page=186
{{quote-book|en|year=2006|author=Gary Parker|title=Her Daddy's Eyes|publisher=Baker Books|isbn=9781441239303|page=143
2005, Radclyffe, ''Justice Served'', Bold Strokes Books Inc ((ISBN)):
- She feathered her fingers through Mitchell&39;s hair. “Besides, I like you a whole lot better than Frye.”
{{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=L.L. Raand|title=Blood Hunt|publisher=Bold Strokes Books Inc|isbn=9781602825055