feeder

Meanings

Plural: feeders

Noun

• an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening
• someone who consumes food for nourishment
• a branch that flows into the main stream
• a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material
  • "the feeder discharged feed into a trough for the livestock"
• an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds
• an animal that feeds on a particular source of food
  • "a bark feeder"
  • "a mud feeder"
• One who feeds, or gives food to another.
• One who feeds, or gives food to another.
• The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
• 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.
• Ellipsis of feeder school.
• A feeder ship.
• A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
• 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.
• One who abets another.
• A parasite.
• Synonym of blower (“fissure from which firedamp issues”).

Synonyms

affluent, bird feeder, birdfeeder, blower, confluent, eater, self-feeder, tributary

Antonyms

distributary