Dekker Newes from Hell in Works II 104: In this passage through the Citty, whet a number of Lord Mayors, Aldermens, and rich Commoners sonnes and heyres kept a hallowing out at Taverne-windowes to our knight, and wafted him to their Gascoigne shores with their hats only (for they had molted away all their feathers).at moult one’s feathers (v.) under feather, n.