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Feeder
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- 1 One who feeds, or gives food to another.
- 2 an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening wordnet
- 3 One who feeds, or gives food to another.; The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
"Often similes such as 'soft as velvet' or 'fluffy like a cloud' will be employed and the feeder will describe how he feels he can be lost in the enveloping folds of soft flesh."
- 4 an animal that feeds on a particular source of food wordnet
- 5 One who feeds, or takes in food.
"The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day More than the wild-cat; […]"
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- 6 an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds wordnet
- 7 One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
"When the claxon sounded they immediately stopped what they were doing and uncovered the Oerlikon. Paddy, who was ammunition feeder, stood by while Jock trained the 20mm gun around."
- 8 a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material wordnet
- 9 That which is used to feed.
"a bird feeder"
- 10 a branch that flows into the main stream wordnet
- 11 A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
"The surface of the Balaton and the surrounding marshes is not less than 24 German square miles, or 384 English square miles; its principal feeder is the Szala, but all the water it receives appears inconsiderable relatively to its superficial extent, and the quantity lost in evaporation."
- 12 someone who consumes food for nourishment wordnet
- 13 A branch line of a railway.
"This line, described as a valuable feeder to the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, was opened on July 8, 1836, and superseded the older wagonway."
- 14 A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
- 15 Ellipsis of feeder school. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 16 A feeder ship.
- 17 A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court. US
- 18 The pitcher. archaic, slang
- 19 A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side. derogatory
- 20 One who abets another. obsolete
"Go with me; if you like upon report The soil, the profit, and this kind of life, I will your very faithful feeder be, And buy it with your gold right suddenly."
- 21 A parasite. obsolete
- 22 Synonym of blower (“fissure from which firedamp issues”).
Etymology
From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.
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