feed‧er /ˈfiːdə $ -ər/ noun [countable]

1. a container with food for animals or birds:
a bird feeder

2. something that provides supplies for something else:
The Shyok River is a major feeder of the Indus River.
The length of the feeder pipe is 50m.

3. a piece of equipment that supplies something to a machine:
the printer’s paper feeder

4. a person or animal that eats in a particular way:
Catfish are bottom feeders (=they feed at the bottom of rivers).

5. a small road, railway line, or airline service that takes traffic to a main road, line, or service

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