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handfeeding

handfeeding is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about handfeeding

What is handfeeding the present participle and gerund of?
Handfeeding is the present participle and gerund of handfeed.

Words near handfeeding in the dictionary

  1. handfastings
  2. handfastly
  3. handfasts
  4. handfed
  5. handfeed
  6. handfeeding
  7. handfeeds
  8. handfeel
  9. handfight
  10. handfighting
  11. handfights

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