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Feather weight

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(Racing) Scrupulously exact weight, so that a feather would turn the scale, when a jockey is weighed or weighted.
The lightest weight that can be put on the back of a horse in racing.
In wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the lightest of the classes into which contestants are divided; - in contradistinction to light weight, middle weight, and heavy weight.
- Youatt.

See also: Feather Feather Feather



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