PREEN

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.

2.
v.

To dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds. Derham.

3.
v.

To trim up, as trees. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.


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