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Feather-edged a. World English Historical Dictionary

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Feather-edged a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Feather-edged a. [f. as prec. + -ED2.]

1   1.  Having one edge thinner than the other, so that the section is wedge-shaped. Also quasi-adv.

2 1703.  T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 131. Eaves-lath. That thick feather-edg’d-board, generally nail’d round the Eaves of a House, for the lowermost Tiles, Slate, or Shingles to rest upon.

3 1713.  Warder, True Amazons (ed. 2), 115. Two Boards slit feather-edg’d will cover the House.

4 1785.  Roy, in Phil. Trans., LXXV. 396. Two feather-edged pieces of brass.

5 1806.  A. Young, Agric. Essex (1813), I. 198. Mr. Rogers’ Norfolk ploughs lay their furrows quite flat; but the Essex ones feather-edged.

6 1812.  J. Smyth, Pract. Customs (1821), 282. The officers are to understand that the term feather-edged is applicable to such Slabs only as are rendered feather-edged by the natural convexity of the tree.

7 1861.  J. H. Walsh, Horse, xxxii. 567. The disadvantages … of the feather-edged shoe.

8   2.  Of ribbons, etc.: Having a tufted edge.

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