v. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To cut to a feather-edge, produce a thin edge upon. Also transf. to turn (oneself) sideways.
1799. Jas. Wilson, Mission. Voy. S. Seas, p. xlix. The planks being feather-edged, and lapped over.
1800. Herschel, in Phil. Trans., XC. 306. The slip of wood at their back … was feather-edged towards the stove.
1854. Thoreau, Walden, i. 49. The boards were carefully feather-edged and lapped.
1890. W. C. Russell, Ocean Trag., II. xxiv. 249. Tell your mad relative to feather-edge himself. He is all front. ’Tis too irrational to take advantage of.
