feathering

English

Verb

feathering

1. present participle and gerund of feather

Noun

feathering (countable and uncountable, plural featherings)

1. Plumage.
2. A feathered texture.
   • 1834, Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants:

     The whole flower is very small; the tube is faintly marked with lilac lines; the petals are concave, the three outer white, marked with three lines, the middle one narrow, without featherings, the outer ones broader, and neatly feathered […]

3. The fitting of feathers to arrows.
4. (architecture) An arrangement of small arcs or foils separated by projecting cusps, frequently forming the feather-like ornament on the inner mouldings of arches.
5. Visible offshoots of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.

Derived terms

• feathering strip