[f. as prec. + -ED2.]
1. Having one edge thinner than the other, so that the section is wedge-shaped. Also quasi-adv.
1703. T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 131. Eaves-lath. That thick feather-edg’d-board, generally nail’d round the Eaves of a House, for the lowermost Tiles, Slate, or Shingles to rest upon.
1713. Warder, True Amazons (ed. 2), 115. Two Boards slit feather-edg’d will cover the House.
1785. Roy, in Phil. Trans., LXXV. 396. Two feather-edged pieces of brass.
1806. A. Young, Agric. Essex (1813), I. 198. Mr. Rogers’ Norfolk ploughs lay their furrows quite flat; but the Essex ones feather-edged.
1812. J. Smyth, Pract. Customs (1821), 282. The officers are to understand that the term feather-edged is applicable to such Slabs only as are rendered feather-edged by the natural convexity of the tree.
1861. J. H. Walsh, Horse, xxxii. 567. The disadvantages … of the feather-edged shoe.
2. Of ribbons, etc.: Having a tufted edge.
