Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To feed insufficiently.
- v. To supply (an engine) with fuel from the underside.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Noting apparatus which feeds or supplies fresh material from below; specifically, noting a form of mechanical feeder for fuel of boiler-furnaces, designed for bituminous coal rich in volatile components. The coal is fed through a tubular channel and enters the burning area from under the bed of ignited fuel. The gases first distilled off must pass up through the glowing bed above them and become heated enough to unite with oxygen and burn with little smoke. After the coking is completed the solid carbon begins to glow and burn, and its combustion is completed as it reaches the top of the fuel-bed and rolls outward toward the sides of the grate area proper. This feeder is particularly well adapted for pitchy or fat coals.
Jour. Franklin Iust, Dec, 1904, p. 439. - To supply with too little food; feed insufficiently.
Wiktionary
- v. to feed inadequately or insufficiently
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To feed with too little food; to supply with an insufficient quantity of food.
Etymologies
- under- + feed (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The most complacent Britisher cannot hope to draw off the life-blood, and underfeed, and keep it up forever.”
“GRACE: I don ` t know that I believe that, underfeed a baby so the baby can be sexy?”
“Because we heard in an affidavit filed by the nanny who was fired that she claims Anna Nicole Smith told her to deliberately underfeed the child.”
“Among other things, she is saying that Anna Nicole ordered her to underfeed the baby so the baby could be -- and I'll give you the quote -- "sexy.”
“And she ordered this nanny, according to the affidavit, to underfeed the child with baby food, and the nanny says that the baby looked undernourished as a result.”
“She will overwork you, I'm afraid: I only hope she won't underfeed you.”
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science
“One of these boilers is equipped with a Jones underfeed stoker, and is baffled in the regular way.”
“Chain grate stokers in general produce less smoke than either overfeed or underfeed types, due to the fact that there are no cleaning periods necessary.”
“Mechanical Stokers are of three general types: 1st, overfeed; 2nd, underfeed; and 3rd, traveling grate.”
“In the horizontal classes of underfeed stokers, the action of a screw carries the fuel back through a retort from which it passes upward, as the fuel above is consumed, the ash being finally deposited on dead plates on either side of the retort, from which it can be removed.”
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