feeder
English
Etymology
From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -iːdə(r)
Noun
feeder (plural feeders)
- One who feeds, or gives food to another.
- The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
- 2010, Niall Richardson, Transgressive Bodies:
- 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.
- 2010, Niall Richardson, Transgressive Bodies:
- The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
- One who feeds, or takes in food.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene v:
- The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder,
- Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day
- More than the wild-cat; […]
- 1871, George Miller Beard, Eating and Drinking:
- 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.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene v:
- One who, or that which, feeds material into something.
- 2007, Thomas E. Lightburn, The Shield and the Shark (page 173)
- 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.
- 2007, Thomas E. Lightburn, The Shield and the Shark (page 173)
- That which is used to feed.
- a bird feeder
- A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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:
- A branch line of a railway.
- A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
- (education) A feeder school.
- (shipbuilding, navigation) A feeder ship.
- (US, law) A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
- (baseball, slang, archaic, 1800s) The pitcher.
- (video games, derogatory) 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.
- (obsolete) One who abets another.
- (obsolete) A parasite.
Derived terms
Translations
that which feeds
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that which is used to feed
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tributray stream
railway branch line
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transmission line
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baseball:pitcher — see pitcher
Anagrams
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish figedóir (“weaver”) (compare Irish fíodóir, Scottish Gaelic figheadair), from figid (“weaves, plaits, intertwines”, verb); synchronically, fee + -der.
Noun
feeder m (genitive singular feeder, plural feederyn)
- spider
- Synonym: doo-oallee
- weaver
Mutation
Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
feeder | eeder | veeder |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “figedóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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