feeder
feeder is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
- noun. One who furnishes incentives; an encourager.
- noun. One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.
- noun. One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.
- noun. A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein.
- noun. A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
- noun. An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.
- noun. A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.
- noun. an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening
- noun. an animal that feeds on a particular source of food
"a bark feeder"
"a mud feeder"
- noun. an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds
- noun. a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material
"the feeder discharged feed into a trough for the livestock"
- noun. a branch that flows into the main stream
- noun. someone who consumes food for nourishment
Synonyms
birdfeeder, affluent, confluent, tributary, eater
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