DCHP-3

feathers

Esp. Maritimes
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. pl.

small branches, especially of evergreen trees.

Quotations

1849
[On the ridge-pole] rested . . . other poles and on them were carefully disposed "hemlock feathers," or small branches of the hemlock-pine, broken off and laid like a thatch on the sloping roof of our wigwam. . . .
1945
. . . he washed the few dishes, stowed the food in the pack-sack and put it in the lean-to behind him. He cut an armful of spruce "feathers" and that sufficed for a mattress.