Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Devoid of webs for most or all the length of its shaft, as a feather; wired, as a bird. See
wire-tailed , and cut underSeleucides .
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Examples
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Here would lie the great bird of Paradise, all cinnamon, metallic green and buff, with its loose plumage and long wire-shafted feathers.
Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track George Manville Fenn 1870
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