featherwise
English
editEtymology
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editfeatherwise (not comparable)
- Arranged at angles like the barbs of a feather.
- 1883, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, page 384:
- A cavity can be seen in them, and also that they are made of fibres arranged featherwise.
- 1888, The Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend, page 74:
- […] the interior is also of ashlar work, formed of thin stones, laid tier above tier, slanting, and covering each other featherwise.