Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary

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partridge
covey
pinfeather
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pinfeather

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Definition:
A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin.
Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Neither great bird flapped a wing.
No movement of so much as a pinfeather was inharmonious. Life was but a soaring dream.

Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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who’ll never be fooled with the mere content of words, not my words, not these pinfeathered flighters that stroke your lids till they flutter with ecstasy with but the mere echoed noise of the promise.

Ralph Ellison. The Invisible Man (1952)
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