Antonyms 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. feathernoun

   Synonyms:
   plume, quill, pinion

2. featherverb

   Synonyms:
   fledge

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How to use feather in a sentence?

1. Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time:

   Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.

2. Gus Kenworthy:

   I ’m not everybody’s cup of tea, i ’m out and proud and gay and loud. I think that a lot of athletes really want to kind of feather the line of every different angle and sort of be able to appeal to the masses. I’ve already kind of accepted that that’s not what I ’m going to do. So I ’m just going to speak my truth.

3. Helen Keller:

   As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

4. Maria McNamara:

   Even though they are in the early stages of feather evolution, they have already adapted their skin to this more modern structure.

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.

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