Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Glidden, weight 160 1-2, is inclined to feather the oar under water. Settles at the finish...
Columbia rows a stroke consisting of a body swing prolonged very far back and ending with a short sharp leg drive. The oars are rowed out of water and the feather held almost to the catch. It is an effective stroke for a stern wind if the crew be well together...
...slowness in getting the hands away and inclining the bodies forward at the beginning of the recover, and a consequent tangency to rush the slides at the end, letting the oars wash out at the end of the stroke and strike the water with the blades on the feather, causing the boat to roll badly between strokes...
LOST. - At Brattle Hall, Wednesday evening, Dec. 19, a gray feather fan, with tortoise shell sticks. A reward will be given for it at No. 57 Kirkland...
...Norman. So also the poor man was put into a Saxon grave, and the noble into a Norman tomb. All the parts of armor, which was worn only by the nobel, have French names, while the weapons of the people, sword, bow, and the like continued Saxon. So feather is Saxon, but when it changes to a plume for the lord, or a pen for the learned it becomes foreign. Book is Saxon, but a number of books collected together, as could only be done by the wealthy, becomes a library. The weapons of the scholar-pen, ink, paper...