Definitions for feeder

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feeder feed·er

Spelling: [fee-der]

IPA: /ˈfi dər/

Feeder is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in feeder (deeefr).

Definitions for feeder

noun

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.

adjective

1. being, functioning as, or serving as a feeder.
2. pertaining to livestock to be fattened for market.

Origin of feeder

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

Examples for feeder

Inside a feeder school for The Family, a secretive global network of evangelical power players.

Back of this is shown the feeder for sand or gravel up to 2-in.

Some feeder funds, which directed money Bernie Madoff's way, ended up hundreds of millions of dollars in the black.

She then founded the Bank Medici AG in Vienna and used it as a feeder fund for Madoff.

It used to follow its feeder about, and displayed a most inoffensive disposition.

At first Wales and Sanger conceived of Wikipedia merely as an adjunct to Nupedia, sort of like a feeder product or farm team.

If the human body is a furnace, then the Zen body is a feeder pile.

Of the two fragments, the smaller was militarily important only as a feeder to the other.

The cement bin and feeder is the small one in the foreground.

So, for that matter, would the recently revealed federal criminal investigation into the feeder funds.