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will feather

  • future tense
    of feather.
    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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No doubt you and your crony Macdonald and the rest of them will feather your own nests; I don't ask.

From Romance by Joseph Conrad

“And I will feather the last arrow I made,” said Oliver, drawing the shaft in question out of his quiver.

From The Crew of the Water Wagtail by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne