Synonyms for feeder

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fee-der

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfi dər

Top 10 synonyms for feeder

Other synonyms for the word feeder

Définition of feeder

Origin : early 15c., "one who feeds an animal;" 1560s, "one who eats;" agent noun from feed. As a mechanical apparatus, from 1660s. Of cattle and streams, by 1790s; of roads and railroads, by 1850s.

As in straight man : noun comedian who sets up joke
As in farmer : noun person who produces crops, raises animals

Example sentences :

If the human body is a furnace, then the Zen body is a feeder pile.
Extract from : « Zen » by Jerome Bixby

The cement bin and feeder is the small one in the foreground.
Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette

Back of this is shown the feeder for sand or gravel up to 2-in.
Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette

Of the two fragments, the smaller was militarily important only as a feeder to the other.
Extract from : « Admiral Farragut » by A. T. Mahan

It used to follow its feeder about, and displayed a most inoffensive disposition.
Extract from : « Little Folks (July 1884) » by Various

Mr Thornhill came with a couple of friends, his chaplain, and feeder.
Extract from : « The Vicar of Wakefield » by Oliver Goldsmith

But, being a feeder on herbage only, he had not thought of tasting the red flesh.
Extract from : « In the Morning of Time » by Charles G. D. Roberts

Cakes in this world will grow by being fed on, if only the feeder be not too insatiate.
Extract from : « Framley Parsonage » by Anthony Trollope

First, to watch the great annual flooding of this Nile feeder.
Extract from : « Stanley in Africa » by James P. Boyd

Here I learned that the stream was the feeder of the Grimsel lake.
Extract from : « Hours of Exercise in the Alps » by John Tyndall

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