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Definitions for Feeder

[1] a person or thing that supplies food or feeds something.
[2] a bin or boxlike device from which farm animals may eat, especially 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.
[13] being, functioning as, or serving as a feeder.
[14] pertaining to livestock to be fattened for market.
[15] a person or thing that feeds or is fed
[16] a child's feeding bottle or bib
[17] agriculture , mainly US and Canadian a head of livestock being fattened for slaughter
[18] a person or device that feeds the working material into a system or machine
[19] a tributary channel, esp one that supplies a reservoir or canal with water
[20] a road, service, etc, that links secondary areas to the main traffic network (as modifier ) a feeder bus
[21] a transmission line connecting an aerial to a transmitter or receiver a power line for transmitting electrical power from a generating station to a distribution network

Words related to Feeder

sidekick, rancher, peasant, laborer, producer, grower, tender, reaper, gardener, agriculturist, clodhopper, horticulturist, villein, homesteader, gleaner, planter, agriculturalist, cropper, sower, sharecropper

Words nearby Feeder

feedback, feedback inhibition, feedback loop, feedbag, feedbox, feeder, feeder line, feeder road, feedgrain, feedhorn, feeding

Origin of Feeder

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at feed, -er1

Synonyms for Feeder

sidekick, banana, feed, foil, second banana, stooge, straight person