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 --
Spreading away from the furrows are smaller grooves called "feathering" or "cracking".
It is described as having black eyes, dark gray or purple leg colour, with silver or red hackles and sometimes red feathering on the wings.
They were not feathering their own nests.
My concern was that we would leave ourselves open to allegations of feathering our nests and being seen to be looking after our own political interest.
However, there are also arguments that such people are the chief beneficiaries of the elite's constant feathering of their nests, and so their travel and assets should be frozen.
Instead, they have had a taxation policy since 1979 of feathering the beds of the very rich.
All that they are interested in is in looking after their friends, in feathering their own nests.
Money can always be found, on this circular argument, for excesses of expenditure by people who are very likely feathering their own nests.
