feeder

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a container or device that supplies food to people or animals

   We filled the bird feeder with sunflower seeds before the snow arrived.

2. 2
   noun

   a person or animal that eats, especially in a specified way or from a specified source

   As a teenager he was a hearty feeder but remained remarkably thin.

3. 3
   noun

   a mechanism, route, or smaller system that supplies material, traffic, or power to a larger one

   The printer's automatic feeder can hold fifty sheets of paper.

Common collocations

• bird feeder Noun + noun

From Middle English feedere, an agent noun formed from feed + -er. Its meaning expanded from a person or animal that feeds to devices and subsidiary systems that supply something continuously.

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