Meaning of Feeder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who feeds, or gives food to another.
2. The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
3. One who feeds, or takes in food.
4. One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
5. That which is used to feed.
6. A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
7. A branch line of a railway.
8. A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
9. Ellipsis of feeder school.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
10. A feeder ship.
11. A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
    US
12. The pitcher.
    archaic, slang
13. 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.
    derogatory
14. One who abets another.
    obsolete
15. A parasite.
    obsolete
16. Synonym of blower (“fissure from which firedamp issues”).

Equivalents

Examples

“Often similes such as 'soft as velvet' or 'fluffy like a cloud' will be employed and the feeder will describe how he feels he can be lost in the enveloping folds of soft flesh.”

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

“There are many who are dietarians in theory, but liberal feeders in practice. They suppose or maintain that it is a duty to deny oneself of all luxuries at the table, but practically they take the best that they can get.”

“When the claxon sounded they immediately stopped what they were doing and uncovered the Oerlikon. Paddy, who was ammunition feeder, stood by while Jock trained the 20mm gun around.”

“a bird feeder”

“The surface of the Balaton and the surrounding marshes is not less than 24 German square miles, or 384 English square miles; its principal feeder is the Szala, but all the water it receives appears inconsiderable relatively to its superficial extent, and the quantity lost in evaporation.”

“This line, described as a valuable feeder to the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, was opened on July 8, 1836, and superseded the older wagonway.”

“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.”

“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.”

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