feeds

Noun

feed (countable and uncountable, plural feeds)

1. (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
   • They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
2. Something supplied continuously.
   • a satellite feed
3. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
   • the paper feed of a printer
4. The part of a fountain pen that supplies ink to the nib.
5. The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
6. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, colloquial, countable) A meal.
   • 184?, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
     One proposed going to Hungerford-market to do a feed on decayed shrimps or other offal laying about the market; another proposed going to Covent-garden to do a 'tightener' of rotten oranges, to which I was humorously invited; […]

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