FEAT • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Feat

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/fit/ Listen

noun

Feat n.

An act; a deed; an exploit. "The warlike feats I have done."

A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.

verb

Feat v. t. To form; to fashion. (Obs.) "To the more mature, A glass that feated them."

adjective

Feat adj. (compar. feater; superl. featest) Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty. (Archaic) "Never master had a page... so feat." "And look how well my garments sit upon me Much feater than before."

See images of 'Feat'

Etymology of 'Feat'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Feat" Quotes from Famous Books

... self for the satisfaction of imperious duty. Such deliberate return towards suffering is no cowardice, but a triumph over weak flesh; and the awkward strife of diffidence may often prove a greater feat of arms than the supple fence ...

— Apologia Diffidentis • W. Compton Leith

... lex, our law-makers delight in very small jokes. When Mr. CECIL BECK, as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, delivered HIS MAJESTY's reply to the Address the House of Commons was chiefly interested in watching how he would accomplish the feat of walking backwards from the Table to the Bar. More than once in past history the task has proved too much for the man who essayed it, and the orderly retreat has degenerated into a shambling rout. But there was no such hitch to-day. Progressive politician though he is, Mr. BECK retraced his steps ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916 • Various

... execution. Hitherto his favourite had been Prometheus Unbound: I am fain to suppose that that great effort did not now hold a second place in his affections, though he may have considered that the Adonais, as being a less arduous feat, came nearer to reaching its goal. (To Peacock, August, 1821.) 'I have sent you by the Gisbornes a copy of the Elegy on Keats. The subject, I know, will not please you; but the composition of the poetry, and ...

— Adonais • Shelley

... of punch now, Miss Tierney; shure you're fainting away entirely for the want of a dhrop." The lady addressed was wiping, with the tail of her gown, a face which showed the labour that had been necessary to perform the feat of dancing down the whole company to the tune of the "wind that shakes the barley," and was now leaning against the wall, whilst her last partner was offering her punch made on the half and half system: "Take a sup, Miss Tierney, then; shure ...

— The Macdermots of Ballycloran • Anthony Trollope

... When this road showed a tendency to sink below the level, Stephenson loaded the moss beyond the track to balance it; when water oozed through, he invented a new kind of drain-pipe formed of old tallow casks, headed into each other, and ballasted to keep them down, and at last the feat was accomplished—the railway was run over the wet quaking moss on firm ...

— The Iron Horse • R.M. Ballantyne

More quotes...