feeder

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Usually extras like the feeder are reserved to the higher end models, so it's great to see one on such a cheap product.

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  1. noun One that supplies food: a bird feeder on a window ledge.
  2. noun One that is fed, especially an animal that is being fattened for market.
  3. noun A worker or device that feeds materials into a machine for further processing.
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  • But nothing for a broken feeder, a thing that couldn't happen because the feeder was part of the world. —  Asimov'sSF,January2007
  • Name me as your feeder, and I will put him in your service as well. —  Robin Hobb
  • She had lost some of the plumpness she had gained as my feeder, and her proud head was bowed now, a guest at her sister's fireside rather than a woman presiding over her own hearth. —  Robin Hobb
  • It is actually a marketing system known as a feeder system. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • "As long as the feeder is visible, filled with relatively fresh nectar or sugar water, and hummingbirds have returned from their wintering grounds, there's a good chance you'll attract hummingbirds," noted Brauning. —  Latest News from SYS-CON ITALIA
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