The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feather-edge \Feath"er-edge`\, n.
(Zo["o]l.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.
Any thin, as on a board or a razor.
Usage examples of "feather-edge".
The teenager looked, pointing to a circular blemish on the feather-edge timber wall of the barn.
And the face beneath the horns was a human face—but with the round feather-edged eyes of a bird.
And the face beneath the horns was a human face - but with the round feather-edged eyes of a bird.
Even Stebbing, who had good reason to know that he could drive to an inch, clutched the edge of his seat three times: twice when, on a narrow stretch of the road, he sprang his horses to give the go-by to a slower vehicle, and once when he feather-edged a blind corner without checking.
It was not he, but Curry, grimly hanging on, who shut his eyes when Alverstoke feather-edged a blind corner, leaving an inch to spare between the phaeton and an oncoming coach.
Salap said, back propped against a boulder, lifting a jar filled with bony fragments and feather-edged scraps.
Other things, even closer to perfect muteness, their animating spirit departed: a hand-carved table that had sat in a corner of the Kai's sleeping chamber, the oil lamp from the niche in the stone wall, a sequence of ear ornaments, each wrapped in feather-edged paper, each more elaborate and bejewelled than the one before, all of them signifying the mortal woman's ascent through the hierarchy of her people's faith.