Feeder

Quick meaning: Feeder is a noun meaning One who feeds, or gives food to another.

Meaning

One who feeds, or gives food to another.

More Meanings

1. One who feeds, or takes in food.
2. One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
3. That which is used to feed.
4. A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
5. A branch line of a railway.
6. A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
7. (education) Ellipsis of feeder school.

Example Sentences

The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day More than the wild-cat; […]

Another factor to be allowed for in establishing the remunerativeness of a service was its value as a feeder to the rest of the system.

This line, described as a valuable feeder to the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, was opened on July 8, 1836, and superseded the older wagonway.

Go with me; if you like upon report The soil, the profit, and this kind of life, I will your very faithful feeder be, And buy it with your gold right suddenly.

Word Forms

• feeders

Synonyms for feeder

Depending on context, synonyms include blower, affluent, tributary, eater, devourer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eater, devourer, tributary, affluent, feeding, feed.

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