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Feather-weight. 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-weight 1.  That which has the weight of a feather; hence, a very small thing.

1 1838.  Dickens, O. Twist (1850), 283/1. He turned … to observe the effect of the slightest featherweight in his favour.

2 1885.  A. M. Clerke, Pop. Hist. Astron., 108. The feather-weight of his carelessness, however, kicked the beam.

3   2.  Racing. The lightest weight allowed by the rules to be carried by a horse in a handicap. Hence sometimes applied to the rider.

4 1811.  Sporting Mag., XXXIX. Dec., 136/2. The animals rode a feather weight.

5 1858.  Jockey Club Rules, in Blaine’s Rural Sports (1870), 376. A feather weight shall be considered 4 st. 7 lb.

6 1883.  E. Pennell-Elmhirst, The Cream of Leicestershire, 131–2. The last-named, who was going like a youth and a feather-weight, was afterwards heard to say that, even in his long experience, he had never seen hounds fly along as they did now.

7   fig.  1860.  Motley, Netherl., I. 313–4. Burghley and Walsingham, the great Queen herself, were no feather-weights, like the frivolous Henry III. and his minions.

8   3.  Boxing. Applied to a pugilist who is very light, as distinguished from a heavy-, middle-, or light-weight.

9 1889.  E. B. Michell, Boxing, 147. The boundary between heavy and middle weight, down to feather-weight (9 stone).

10   So Feather-weighted ppl. a., trifling, unimportant.

11 1870.  Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. I. (1873), 274. Finding that he can make those feather-weighted accidents balance each other.

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