featherboard


featherboard

feath·er·board

F5061650 (fĕth′ər-bôrd′)n. A flat, usually narrow piece of wood or plastic having a series of close cuts made at an angle along a comblike edge, used to hold a piece of wood against a fence as the wood is pushed along a table saw or router.
[From the feathers (strips of wood or plastic) making up the comblike edge.]