feeder

Definitions

• One who feeds, or gives food to another.
• One who feeds, or takes in food.
• One who, or that which, feeds material into something.
• That which is used to feed.
• A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
• A branch line of a railway.
• A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
• (education) A feeder school.
• (shipbuilding) A feeder ship.
• (US) A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
• (baseball) The pitcher.
• (video games) A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.
• (obsolete) One who abets another.
• (obsolete) A parasite.