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
- 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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