Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered with pin-feathers; not fully fledged: said of young birds acquiring their first plumage after the downy state, and of old birds renewing their plumage during the molt: sometimes used figuratively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having some or all of the
feathers imperfectly developed.
Etymologies
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pin + feathered
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