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Feater vs Fewter - What's the difference?

feater | fewter |

As an adjective feater

is comparative of feat.

As a noun fewter is

a support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.

As a verb fewter is

to rest (a spear) in its fewter.

feater

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (feat)

    • feat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2013 , date=January 22 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4) , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.}}

    Derived terms

    * no small feat * no mean feat

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty
  • * Shakespeare
    • Never master had a page so feat .
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
    • And look how well my garments sit upon me — / Much feater than before.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To form; to fashion.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To the more mature, / A glass that feated them.

    Anagrams

    * * * *

    fewter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.
  • *1994 , (Jeanette Winterson), Art & Lies :
  • *:From heaven the spear-light vertical in its fewter .

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To rest (a spear) in its fewter.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.4:
  • *:His speare he feutred , and at him it bore, / But with no better fortune than the rest afore.