To grow, cover or be covered with feathers.
To complete the last moult and become a winged adult insect.
To decorate with feathers.
To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.
The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber).