Feeder
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
(2): ( n.) One who furnishes incentives; an encourager.
(3): ( n.) A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
(4): ( n.) One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.
(5): ( n.) A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.
(6): ( n.) An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.
(7): ( 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.
(8): ( n.) A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein.
(9): ( n.) A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.
(10): ( n.) One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
King James Dictionary [2]
Fee'Der, n.
1. One that gives food, or supplies nourishment. 2. One who furnishes incentives an encourager.
The feeder of my riots.
3. One that eats or subsists as, small birds are feeders on grain or seeds. 4. One that fattens cattle for slaughter. 5. A fountain, stream or channel that supplies a main canal with water.
Feeder of a vein, in mining, a short cross vein.
