Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FEED-ER
FEED-ER, n.
- One that gives food, or supplies nourishment.
- One who furnishes incentives; an encourager. The feeder of my riots. Shak.
- One that eats or subsists; as, small birds are feeders on grain or seeds.
- One that fattens cattle for slaughter. United States.
- A fountain, stream or channel that supplies a main canal with water. Feeder of a vein, in mining, a short cross vein. Cyc.
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