handfeed
handfeed verb: of an animal or machine, to feed by hand.
Verb
handfeed (third-person singular simple present handfeeds, present participle handfeeding, simple past and past participle handfed)
- 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
- Marjorie handfeeds one of her many pets, an orphaned joey, at Campbell Town.2011, Danielle Wood, Housewife Superstar: The Very Best of Marjorie Bligh, page 97
Forms of handfeed
| third-person singular present | handfeeds |
|---|---|
| present participle | handfeeding |
| past participle | handfed |
| past | handfed |
| alternative form | hand-feed |
| alternative form | hand feed |
Origin of handfeed
From hand + feed.
Words that rhyme with handfeed
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- weed
- proceed
- stampede
- concede
- accede
- deed
- exceed
- need
- bede
- knead
- mislead
- plead
- rede
- swede
- cede
- creed
- godspeed
- heed
- intercede
- keyed
- leed
- meed
- precede
- recede
- tumbleweed
- a friend in need is a friend indeed
- beread
- greed
- he'd
- indeed
- interbreed
- kneed
- mead
- secede
- she'd
- sneed
- steed
- supersede
- underfeed
- we'd
- ye'd
- agreed
- anasheed
- aniseed
- atheed
- caid
- co-feed
- cofeed
Questions about handfeed
- What does handfeed mean?
- Handfeed means of an animal or machine, to feed by hand.
- What part of speech is handfeed?
- Handfeed is a verb.
- What is the past tense of handfeed?
- The past tense of handfeed is handfed.
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