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Feeder   /fˈidər/   Listen
Feeder

noun
1.
An animal being fattened or suitable for fattening.
2.
Someone who consumes food for nourishment.  Synonym: eater.
3.
A branch that flows into the main stream.  Synonyms: affluent, confluent, tributary.
4.
A machine that automatically provides a supply of some material.  Synonym: self-feeder.
5.
An outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds.  Synonyms: bird feeder, birdfeeder.
6.
An animal that feeds on a particular source of food.  "A mud feeder"



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... Crowest. "Haydn" was published in 1902 by J.M. Dent & Co. (LONDON), represented at the time in New York by E.P. Dutton & Co. Each page was cut out of the original book with an X-acto knife and fed into an Automatic Document Feeder Scanner to make this e-text, so the original book was, well, ruined ...
— Haydn • J. Cuthbert Hadden
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— Rough and Tumble Engineering • James H. Maggard
... the Celestial Traveller. At Riker's Planet they make connection with the feeder line out ...
— Sjambak • John Holbrook Vance
... English is more and more closely cemented from year to year, as the wealth of the new world burrows its way among the privileged classes of the old world. It is a poor ambition for the possessor of suddenly acquired wealth to have it appropriated as a feeder of the impaired fortunes of a deteriorated household, with a family record of which its representatives are unworthy. The plain and wholesome language of Emerson is on the whole more needed now than it was when spoken. His words have often been extolled for their ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... multitude of elements, especially pyrites. After an hour and a quarter's sharp walking, we hit the broad Wady el-Kibrt, which rounds its Jebel to the south-east, and which feeds the Wady el-Jibbah, itself a feeder of the Sharm Jibbah. The latter, which gave us shelter in the corvette Sinnr (Captain Ali Bey), is a long blue line of water bounding the ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton


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