feeder
Meaning
- One who feeds, or gives food to another.
- One who feeds, or gives food to another.
- One who feeds, or takes in food.
- One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
- That which is used to feed.
- A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
- A branch line of a railway.
- A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
- Short for feeder school.
- A feeder ship.
- A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
- (slang) The pitcher.
- 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.
- (obsolete) One who abets another.
- (obsolete) A parasite.
Synonyms
self-feeder
feeder line
sheet feeder
tributary stream
onflow
one who feeds
charging device
feeding device
page feeder
feed apparatus
feeding box
side stream
pushing device
gate runner
running channel
wire feeding device
tributary waterway
tributary flow
tributary drain
tributary course
branched lode
bunk-feeder
gun charger
towveyor
feeder-conveyer
animal feeder
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfidɚ/
Etymology
From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.
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