adjective, feater, featest. Archaic.
apt; skillful; dexterous.
a remarkable, skilful, or daring action; exploit; achievement: feats of strength
another word for skilful
another word for neat1 , suitable
mid-14c., “action, deeds,” from Anglo-French fet, from Old French fait (12c.) “action, deed, achievement,” from Latin factum “thing done,” a noun based on the past participle of facere “make, do” (see factitious). Sense of “exceptional or noble deed” arose c.1400 from phrase feat of arms (French fait d’armes).
[feth -er-bak] /ˈfɛð ərˌbæk/ noun 1. any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
[feth -er] /ˈfɛð ər/ noun 1. one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side. 2. kind; character; […]
noun, Furniture. 1. decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
[feth -er-bed] /ˈfɛð ərˌbɛd/ verb (used with or without object), featherbedded, featherbedding. 1. to subject to or engage in featherbedding. verb