Clues for the word "FEATHER"
We've had 35 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 51 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on October 22, 2025.
Definition of feather
- n. - One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
- n. - Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
- n. - The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
- n. - A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
- n. - One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- n. - A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
- n. - A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
- n. - The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- v. t. - To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
- v. t. - To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
- v. t. - To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- v. t. - To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- v. t. - To tread, as a cock.
- v. i. - To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
- v. i. - To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
- v. i. - To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
- v. i. - To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
Referring Clues
- Part of a boa
- Partner of 60-Across
- Bird dropping?
- Exemplar of lightness
- Wing thing
- It's on the wing
- Kind of pillow
- Plume
- Kind of bed
- Plumage
- Word before weight
- ____bedding
- Bit of blanket filler
- Boa bit
- Alarm about the light thing
- Afraid to grip the wedge?
- A piece of flying equipment, naturally
- Awful fate met the woman in the aviary
- Carrying the alarm - it's very light
- Sire acquiring energy - with 9 4 is nominally said to be 21 6
- The fare, as cooked, is known to be light
- The fare being cooked is very light
- Priest swallows drug - it helps in flight
- Down with her earlier act!
- Quill
- Show anxiety about the type of bed
- It's shed by a bird
- It's used in flight (by the RAF out East?)
- Dread about article that's light
- Though light, means a great effort for the woman concerned
- Be afraid to hold an article that's so very light!
- The fear possibly associated with a white one?
- Though ticklish, perhaps, can be taken lightly
- Element of plumage ... and a feature shared by every answer crossing this one
- Light as a ___
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 22, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 11, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 23, 2024
- LA Times - November 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 17, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - May 08, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - May 01, 2023
- New York Times - November 29, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - September 01, 2022
- Mirror Classic - January 19, 2018
- Mirror Quick - January 03, 2018
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 26, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 03, 2017
- Mirror Quick - August 01, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - July 18, 2017
- Mirror Quick - June 18, 2017
- Mirror Classic - June 16, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 18, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - May 01, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - April 04, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - October 19, 2016
- And in 21 more crossword puzzles...