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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.  Antonym: distributary.
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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"Feeder" Quotes from Famous Books



... the world drew near its close, Came our Lord and leader; From the lily came the rose, From the bush the cedar, From the bush the cedar, From the judge the pleader, From the saint the feeder. Alleluia! ...
— In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV) • Harrison S. Morris
... numerous typographical errors corrected, and words italicized in the original text capitalized in this e-text. In making this e-text, each page was cut out of the original book with an x-acto knife to feed the pages into an Automatic Document Feeder scanner for scanning. Hence, the book was disbinded in order to save it. Thanks to Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading team for ...
— Life of Chopin • Franz Liszt
... not go begging long in a frost-bound wild, even if they are hidden; and by the time our thrush had driven several other thrushes away—for he was a jealous feeder—and had been driven away by blackbirds himself more than once, starlings descended upon the place with their furious greed, and our thrush concluded that it was about time to "step off." The crowded place might become a quick-lunch resort for some others, not insect-feeders—hawks, for instance—and ...
— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars
... had a naughty day to-day. I scrunched a biscuit in my hair, And dipped my feeder in the milk, And spread my ...
— The Verse-Book Of A Homely Woman • Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, AKA Fay Inchfawn
... 's an excellent Feeder of pedigrees; since you last saw her, She hath had two children more, a son ...
— The Duchess of Malfi • John Webster


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