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is feathering

  • present progressive
    of feather (3rd person singular).
    feather
    noun
    one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.

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He is another of Brenchfield’s cronies, and is feathering his nest like the rest of them.

From The Spoilers of the Valley by Robert Watson

"I imagined you to be in the country safe with that kind old lady who is feathering your nest."

From The Time of Roses by L. T. Meade