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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



... be it noted, is a cross between the porpoise and the cuttle- fish; hence its local name of the porputtle. It is a clean feeder, a great fighter and a great delicacy, tasting rather like a mixture of the pilchard, the anchovy and the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 8th, 1920 • Various
... part of the country where the large water-snail was found, and the snails had brought the bird that feeds on them—the large social marsh hawk, a slate-coloured bird resembling a buzzard in its size and manner of flight. But being exclusively a feeder on snails, it lives in peace and harmony with the other bird inhabitants of the marsh. There was always a colony of forty or fifty of these big hawks to be seen at this spot. A still more interesting bird was the jacana, as it is spelt in books, but pronounced ya-sa-NA by the Indians of Paraguay, ...
— Far Away and Long Ago • W. H. Hudson
... set down at the end where I can watch ye that ye don't fly away. Sorry ye have to set on a box, but there ain't chairs enough to go around. I give the Lieutenant a chair 'cause a box ain't safe for him. He's a big feeder and the box ain't strong. Dip in, folks. Get started. Help yourselves. This ain't ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods • Jessie Graham Flower
... whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing really happens; and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare. ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
... in the pan, of dropping it into the fire, or among the cinders. But "Thorough" was always Dan's motto; and after all, small particles of coal or a few hairs can always be detected by the careful feeder, and removed. ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome


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