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water feather

noun

  1. a water milfoil, Myriophyllum aquaticum.
  2. a North American featherfoil, Hottonia inflata.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of water feather1

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20
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Example Sentences

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Or was it the Thames he thought about—of Oxford with its many towers, and the cry of the coach along the tow-path as the eight swings homeward up-stream, in the grey of a winter afternoon, to the regular click of the rowlocks as the men pluck their blades from the water, feather and come forward for the next stroke, making ready to drive back their slides as one man with their legs?

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