A waterway or path that is particularly light, clear, or easy to navigate, as if guided by feathers.
Compound of 'feather' and 'way'; a poetic term suggesting a path as light and effortless as a feather drifting on water, used in nautical and literary contexts.
This is a beautifully poetic nautical term—sailors would use it to describe the smoothest, most favorable shipping routes where currents seemed to guide their vessels as gently as feathers on the wind.
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