verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To strip of feathers.
2. 2
   To disengage the controls that rotate the blades of a propeller perpendicular to the axis of the propeller.

   "unfeather the propeller"

Etymology

From un- + feather.

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