Definition of "feder" [feder]

• An obsolete or dialectal form of feather.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "For example, consolidating IT infrastructure, streamlining supply chains, using advanced business analytics to reduce improper payments, and switching from expensive custom code to standardized software applications could save more than $1 trillion over a decade while upgrading and improving feder al support and information services."
• "The oil industry is wrestling with how to address the pervasive problem of undertrained and overstretched workers on deepwater rigs as feder al investigators probe those issues in the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe."
• "While feder isn't going to win, anything thats gets her closer or makes wolf look bad is helping to defeat him in the next election."