Synonyms for feather
ˈfɛð ərfeath·er

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1. feathernoun

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

   Synonyms:
   feathers, feathering, horsefeathers

   Antonyms:
   spats

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1. feather, plume, plumagenoun

   the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds

   Synonyms:
   feathering, plumage, plume

2. feather, featheringverb

   turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls

   Synonyms:
   feathering, plumage, plume

3. featherverb

   join tongue and groove, in carpentry

   Synonyms:
   square, fledge

4. featherverb

   cover or fit with feathers

   Synonyms:
   square, fledge

5. feather, squareverb

   turn the paddle; in canoeing

   Synonyms:
   square, square up, fledge

6. feather, squareverb

   turn the oar, while rowing

   Synonyms:
   square, square up, fledge

7. fledge, featherverb

   grow feathers

   "The young sparrows are fledging already"

   Synonyms:
   square, flight, fledge

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1. • Cover
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1. feathernoun

   Synonyms:
   plume

2. feathernoun

   Synonyms:
   kind, nature, species

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1. feathernoun

   Synonyms:
   plume, quill, pinion

2. featherverb

   Synonyms:
   fledge

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1. List of paraphrases for "feather":

   feathers, plume, pen, quill, risha, badminton

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How to use feather in a sentence?

1. Paul Olsen:

   This a remarkable find providing unprecedented detail for a previously poorly understood phase of feather evolution.

2. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton:

   Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

3. Wedbush Securities:

   Taking a step back, this is a major feather in the cap for the Elon Musk bull.

4. Chinese Proverb:

   Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.

5. Chad Eliason:

   Hummingbirds have bright, iridescent feathers, but if you took a hummingbird feather and smashed it into tiny pieces, you’d only see black dust. The pigment in the feathers is black, but the shapes of the melanosomes that produce that pigment are what make the colors in hummingbird feathers that we see.