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hand-feed

hand-feed is the alternative spelling of handfeed.

Meaning of handfeed

Verb

handfeed (third-person singular simple present handfeeds, present participle handfeeding, simple past and past participle handfed)

  1. (transitive) Of an animal or machine, to feed by hand.
    • Walker only saw the place in its deceitful summer promise, when the corn, whose husks were never to fill, was waving in sunshine, when the potato-fields, which were to yield nothing but dwarfed and rotten tubercles, were still gay in blossom, and the cattle, which for nine months of the year have...1878, William O'Brien, Christmas in the Galtees: An Inquiry Into the Condition of the Tenantry of Mr. Nathaniel Buckley

Forms of hand-feed

third-person singular presenthand-feeds
present participlehand-feeding
past participlehand-fed
pasthand-fed

Questions about hand-feed

What is hand-feed the alternative spelling of?
Hand-feed is the alternative spelling of handfeed.

Words near hand-feed in the dictionary

  1. hand-egg
  2. hand-eggs
  3. hand-eye coordination
  4. hand-eye coordinations
  5. hand-fed
  6. hand-feed
  7. hand-feeding
  8. hand-feeds
  9. hand-foot syndrome
  10. hand-foot-genital syndrome
  11. hand-foot-mouth disease

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