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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."

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"Feat" Quotes from Famous Books

... tranquilly, stretched at full length, clasped hands for pillow; and old Dodden, sitting with crooked fingers interlaced to check their trembling betrayal of old age, told how in his youth he had "swep" a four-acre field single-handed in three days—an almost impossible feat—and of the first reaping machine in these parts, and how it brought, to his thinking, the ruin of agricultural morals with it. "'Tis again nature," he said, "the Lard gave us the land an' the seed, but 'Ee said that a man should ...

— The Roadmender • Michael Fairless

... that they can effect cures of disease and erect churches, but add that they can get their buildings finished on time even when the feat seems impossible to mortal senses. Read the following from a publication ...

— Pulpit and Press (6th Edition) • Mary Baker Eddy

... impression on the solitary President, who told them shortly and decisively: "I can't spare this man; he fights." They wholly failed to penetrate the protecting fence which the civilian threw around the soldier, and within the shelter of which that soldier so admirably performed the feat which more than any other illustrates the national arms. Certainly the President comes in for his peculiar share of the praise. When the news came to Mr. Lincoln he wrote to ...

— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II • John T. Morse

... however, passed between two great boulders, over the lower one of which the river broke in a high white wave. It was the duty of the steersman to swing the boat between these giant rocks, almost straight across the course of the river, a feat of extreme difficulty with such a craft or indeed with any craft. This was the bad place in the channel always known as ...

— Young Alaskans in the Far North • Emerson Hough

... Earthgirl whose beauty was entirely missed by Chind Ramar, left the Polaris in a hurry. She either had no luggage or left her luggage aboard. Jason Ramsey, she thought. She had read Chind Ramar's mind; a feat growing less rare although by no means common yet among the offspring of those who had spent a great deal of time bombarded by cosmic radiation between the stars. She hurried through the chilling wind ...

— Equation of Doom • Gerald Vance

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