Featherbed is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FEATHERBED in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pamper; to protect (an industry, workers, etc.) by such practices as overmanning in order to save jobs
• provide (someone) with excessively favourable economic or working conditions
• treat with excessive indulgence
• hire more workers than are necessary
• to pamper; to protect (an industry, workers, etc) by such practices as overmanning in order to save jobs
NOUN:
• a mattress filled with feathers or down
• a bed that has a mattress stuffed with feathers.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• calling for, sanctioning, or resulting from featherbedding

Words related to FEATHERBED

featherbedded24 featherbedding25 featherbeds20

Words that contain FEATHERBED

featherbeds20 featherbedded24 featherbedding25 featherbeddings26

How to use FEATHERBED in a sentence

• Darting back into the blinding smoke, she fetched a feather-bed and forced it through the window.
• The principal covering is a bag of down, very properly denominated the upper bed, and between this and the feather-bed below, the traveller is expected to pass the night.
• He was now going to a home provided by benevolent persons as a kind of featherbed to catch the falling workhouse boy.
• We slept that night on a feather-bed, and took cold for want of air, beneath a roof.
• The principal covering is a bag of down, very properly denominated the upper bed, and between this and the feather-bed below, the traveler is expected to pass a night.
• If you could sleep all the time you might be comfortable, for they give you a feather-bed to cover yourself with.
• I will merely say that we travelled the South Amboy road, and went through a part of the world called Feather-bed Lane, that causes my bones to ache, even now, in recollection.
• But had they removed that horrid feather-bed? He went upstairs.
• An instance of which we saw this evening, when the cat, which had shown it could not be drowned, was found suffocated under a feather-bed in the cabin.
• Her mode of travelling to fairs or markets was either upon a common car, covered with a feather-bed and quilt, or behind Peter upon a pillion.
• A few days, therefore, before that specified for the sale, she took her featherbed car, and had an interview with the executors of the late proprietor.
• At last his hole in the tree was brimming with feathers of every color, length, and degree of softness, a gorgeous feather-bed on which it would dazzle one to sleep.
• By and by Beatrice crawled out from under the ruins and tried to lift the feather-bed back on the mattress, but instead of doing so she fell back on the floor with it in her arms.
• But this victory, even now in these emphatically feather-bed days, is always more or less painful.
• She wanted to set up her high-posted bedstead, with its enormous feather-bed in that, and have it for her fore-room.
• England was then as nearly at peace as she ever became, and it seemed that young Haig was destined to become a feather-bed soldier.
• Why condemn poor helpless Philip to cheap lodgings? Time enough to cast him out to the feather-bed and the fleas on the night before your marriage.
• Ef a gal had gone clean through all eddication, and got to the rule of three itself, that would-n buy a feather-bed.

Similar words containing FEATHERB without suffix ed

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