feeder

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feed⋅er

[fee-der]

–noun

1.	a person or thing that supplies food or feeds something.

2.	a bin or boxlike device from which farm animals may eat, esp. such a device designed to allow a number of chickens to feed simultaneously or to release a specific amount of feed at regular intervals.

3.	a person or thing that takes food or nourishment.

4.	a livestock animal that is fed an enriched diet to fatten it for market. Compare stocker (def. 2).

5.	a person or device that feeds a machine, printing press, etc.

6.	a tributary stream.

7.	bird feeder.

8.	feeder line.

9.	feeder road.

10.	Also, feed. Electricity. a conductor, or group of conductors, connecting primary equipment in an electric power system.

11.	British. a baby's bib.

12.	Theater Slang. straight man.

–adjective

13.	being, functioning as, or serving as a feeder.

14.	pertaining to livestock to be fattened for market.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see feed, -er ¹

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feed·er (fē'dər)

One that supplies food: a bird feeder on a window ledge.
One that is fed, especially an animal that is being fattened for market.
A worker or device that feeds materials into a machine for further processing.
Something that contributes to the operation, maintenance, or supply of something else, especially:
1. A tributary stream.
2. A branch line of a transport system, as of an airline or a railroad.
Any of the medium-voltage lines used to distribute electric power from a substation to consumers or to smaller substations.
A transmission line between an antenna and a transmitter.

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