feeder
Noun
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One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
One who furnishes incentives; an encourager.
One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.
One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
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.
A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.
A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein.
A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.
A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
Now it happened that Kanga had felt rather motherly that morning, and Wanting to Count Things - like Roo's vests, and how many pieces of soap there were left, and the two clean spots in Tigger's feeder.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
My sister would say I'm a feeder because I like cooking for people.
The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination, whose vast abdomens betray them.