feeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfidɚ/
rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: feeders
Etymology: From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who feeds, or gives food to another.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2010, Niall Richardson, Transgressive Bodies:
glosses: One who feeds, or gives food to another.
The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
examples: text: The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder,
Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day
More than the wild-cat; […]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
text: 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.
ref: 1871, George Miller Beard, Eating and Drinking:
glosses: One who feeds, or takes in food.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2007, Thomas E. Lightburn, The Shield and the Shark, page 173:
coordinate_terms: feed#Noun
feedbin
hopper
glosses: One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
examples: text: a bird feeder
glosses: That which is used to feed.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1827, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, Edinburgh: Adam Black, volume 6, book 101, 285:
glosses: A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
examples: text: This line, described as a valuable feeder to the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, was opened on July 8, 1836, and superseded the older wagonway.
ref: 1942 May-June, Charles E. Lee, “The Brampton Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 140:
text: 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.
ref: 1959 August, “Talking of Trains: The costs of transport”, in Trains Illustrated, page 346:
glosses: A branch line of a railway.
glosses: A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
topics: education
glosses: Ellipsis of feeder school.
topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
qualifier: navigation
glosses: A feeder ship.
topics: law
glosses: A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The pitcher.
topics: video-games
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], lines 815–818:
glosses: One who abets another.
glosses: A parasite.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Synonym of blower (“fissure from which firedamp issues”).
synonyms: word: blower
extra: fissure from which firedamp issues
Derived terms: word: barfeeder
english: bird feeder
translation: bird feeder
word: birdfeeder
word: boobfeeder
alt: bottle feeder, bottle-feeder
word: bottlefeeder
alt: bottom-feeder
word: bottom feeder
word: breastfeeder
word: feeder cattle
word: feeder fish
word: feeder fund
word: feeder head
word: feederism
word: feeder line
word: feederliner
word: feeder reservoir
word: feeder school
alt: filter-feeder
word: filter feeder
word: fluid feeder
word: foul feeder
word: nonfeeder
word: overfeeder
word: snake feeder
word: underfeeder
word: wedge-feeder