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Definition of Saddle feather
1. Noun. A long narrow feather on the back (saddle) of a domestic fowl.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saddle Feather
Literary usage of Saddle feather
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every by Francis Francis (1876)
"Tag. silver tinsel; tail, a bit of saddle feather and a fibre or two of ibis ...
silver tinsel a black hackle all the way up; wing, a saddle feather and ..."
2. A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every by Francis Francis (1876)
"Tag, silver tinsel; tail, a bit of saddle feather and a fibre or two of ibis ...
silver tinsel a black hackle all the way up; wing, a saddle feather and ..."
3. A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every by Francis Francis (1876)
"Tag. silver tinsel; tail, a bit of saddle feather and a fibre or two of ibis ...
silver tinsel a black hackle all the way up; wing, a saddle feather and ..."
4. Facts and Useful Hints Relating to Fishing and Shooting: Being a Collection by Irwin Edwin Bainbridge Cox (1874)
"Body, yellow mohair and silver tinsel; yellow hackle ; wing, saddle feather of
golden pheasant and topping of ditto; partridge hackle over wing ; tail, ..."
5. The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer (1881)
"... small heads and beautiful clean combs, well tucked up wings, little tail but
plenty of saddle feather, abundance of miff, heavy leg and foot feather, ..."
6. The Genetic and the Operative Evidence Relating to Secondary Sexual Characters by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1919)
"An intermediate saddle feather is shown in 2o. For comparison with normal feathers
from the same region see figure 2. A still later feather from the ..."
7. A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every by Francis Francis (1920)
"4 is a floss silk body ; tag, gold tinsel; tail, black partridge or teal, and
some saddle feather; butt, black ostrich ; body lower half yellow, ..."
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