0 present participle of feather
1 to turn oars (= poles with flat ends used to move a boat) so that the flat parts are horizontal above the water while you prepare for the next pull
The technique involves feathering the matchline of an anterior electron beam and shallow tangents 0.5-1 cm each day during treatment.
Whatever the hereafter might hold in store, there is nothing like feathering one's nest in the herebefore.
We have already had a reference this afternoon to the cockerel feathering his nest while the hen sits on the eggs.
Again it appears that we are not really feathering our nests.
That constitutes feathering the nest before the cuckoo gets into it.
Assets should not be sold at the last minute because people are feathering their nests.
The waiting lists lengthened because the consultants who are criticising hospital ancillary workers were busy feathering their nests through private practice.
Money can always be found, on this circular argument, for excesses of expenditure by people who are very likely feathering their own nests.
