Ready, skilful.--Johnson. This word is now only known as a provincialism in England and America.
Never master had a page so kind, so diligent;
So feat, so nurse-like.--Shakspeare, Cymbeline.
The following will illustrate its use in New England:
She was so feat and spry, and knowing, and good-natured, she said she could be of some use to somebody.--Margaret, p. 21.