feather n EDD ~ : feather-bed Co, cp ~ -bog (1810).
   1 In phr not a feather out: unruffled, unweary.
   1888 HOWLEY MS Reminiscences 59 They had a great blaze going and other indications told us our long lost voyageurs had returned. Sure enough there they were ... and not a feather out of them. P 108-70 After footing it all that way, she didn't have a feather out of her... She walked all the way home, and not a feather out of her.
   2 Comb feather bed: bog (P 154-78).
   feather-sewell: line with feathers attached to guide the movement of caribou. See also SEWELL.
   [1771] 1792 CARTWRIGHT i, 118 I gave them a feather-sewel to run on that side.

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