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- adjective of an animal or machine
Fed by hand .
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Examples
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I wouldn't be surprised if the giant buck in the picture had been little more than a handfed pet for years on someone's tall fence private game ranch.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the giant buck in the picture had been little more than a handfed pet for years on someone's tall fence private game ranch.
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Two decades later, I watched my neighbor Roberto as he handfed chopped fruit, vegetables, and meat to some big chickens he proudly introduced to me as "fighting cocks."
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Two decades later, I watched my neighbor Roberto as he handfed chopped fruit, vegetables, and meat to some big chickens he proudly introduced to me as "fighting cocks."
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Inst it terrifying how easy it was to fill a blog with the prepackaged rhetoric that is being handfed to us 24-7.
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The pigs lived 40 km from here, and were handfed by my mum, my brother and his friends.
Weekend Roundup magnio 2007
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Your experimental egg-free and non-dairy carrot-beetroot pudding may not be as tasty but far more colourful as the tender beef from you brother's own organic handfed garden-cows, but they get food, and they get to enjoy your party.
Accommodating for your guests. magnio 2007
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"Ever since then he has been extremely controlling of everything - except for small, handfed amounts of carefully managed information."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Mr Dawson said volunteers had handfed some of the younger birds and cut marri nuts, banksias and pine nuts for them to eat because they were not accustomed to sunflower seed.
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The media, handfed by the Obama team, also fueled the hype by noting that Shahzad made almost two trips a year to Pakistan since 2003.
Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email. 2010
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