Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In textile-manuf., an automatic feeder and supply-regulator of raw stock to some one of the preparatory machines, as the opener, picker, scouring-apparatus, carding-engine, etc.
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"Dried up, played out, and given a measly thirty-five a week as hopper-feeder for the editorial room," he announced.
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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