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Synonyms for feeder

noun comedian who sets up joke

More words related to feeder

farmer

noun. person who produces crops, raises animals

farmers

noun. person who produces crops, raises animals

straight man

noun. comedian who sets up joke

Word Origin & History

early 15c., "one who feeds an animal;" 1560s, "one who eats;" agent noun from feed. As a mechanical apparatus, from 1660s. Of cattle and streams, by 1790s; of roads and railroads, by 1850s.

Example Sentences for feeder

If the human body is a furnace, then the Zen body is a feeder pile.

The cement bin and feeder is the small one in the foreground.

Back of this is shown the feeder for sand or gravel up to 2-in.

Of the two fragments, the smaller was militarily important only as a feeder to the other.

It used to follow its feeder about, and displayed a most inoffensive disposition.

Mr Thornhill came with a couple of friends, his chaplain, and feeder.

But, being a feeder on herbage only, he had not thought of tasting the red flesh.

Cakes in this world will grow by being fed on, if only the feeder be not too insatiate.

First, to watch the great annual flooding of this Nile feeder.

Here I learned that the stream was the feeder of the Grimsel lake.