Crossword-Solution: FEEDER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Feeder | n. | One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward. |
| Feeder | n. | One who furnishes incentives; an encourager. |
| Feeder | n. | One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened. |
| Feeder | n. | One who fattens cattle for slaughter. |
| Feeder | n. | A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural flow. |
| Feeder | n. | A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line. |
| Feeder | n. | A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein. |
| Feeder | n. | A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower. |
| Feeder | n. | An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon. |
| Feeder | n. | A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FEEDER | anagram | FEERED, REEFED, REFEED |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FEEDER (5)
Several respondents have connected it to the brand name of a device called a "Kluge paper feeder" dating back at least to 1935, an adjunct to mechanical printing presses.
The revenue arising from his school was small, and would have been scarcely sufficient to furnish him with daily bread, for he was a huge feeder, and, though lank, had the dilating powers of an anaconda; but to help out his maintenance, he was, according to country custom in those parts, boarded and lodged at the houses of the farmers whose children he instructed.
Ordinarily, a scanner could be used with some sort of a document feeder, but because of this application that is not feasible.
And so in gymnastics, if a man takes violent exercise and is a great feeder, and the reverse of a great student of music and philosophy, at first the high condition of his body fills him with pride and spirit, and lie becomes twice the man that he was.
And the great point, above all, the sign of how completely Chad possessed the knowledge in question, was that one thus became, not only with a proper cheerfulness, but with wild native impulses, the feeder of his stream.
Quotes with FEEDER (3)
The Native Americans, whose wisdom Thoreau admired, regarded the Earth itself as a sacred source of energy. To stretch out on it brought repose, to sit on the ground ensured greater wisdom in councils, to walk in contact with its gravity gave strength and endurance. The Earth was an inexhaustible well of strength: because it was the original Mother, the feeder, but also because it enclosed in its bosom all the dead ancestors. It was the element in which transmission took plac…
if a man chooses to be promiscuous, he may still turn up his nose at promiscuity. He may still demand a woman be faithful to him, to save him from his own lust. But women have lust, too. Why should they be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of the infants, feeder of soul, body and pride of man?
But women have lust, too. Why should they be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of the infants, feeder of the soul, body and pride of man?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 47 times in crossword archives (1947–2020).