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self-feed

self-feed adjective: of a drill or drill bit: designed to pull itself into the material being drilled, for better precision.

Adjective

self-feed (not comparable)

  1. Of a drill or drill bit: designed to pull itself into the material being drilled, for better precision.

Verb

self-feed (third-person singular simple present self-feeds, present participle self-feeding, simple past and past participle self-fed)

  1. To provide rations to animals in bulk so as to permit feeding as wanted.

Forms of self-feed

third-person singular presentself-feeds
present participleself-feeding
past participleself-fed
pastself-fed

Origin of self-feed

From self- + feed.

Questions about self-feed

What does self-feed mean?
Self-feed means of a drill or drill bit: designed to pull itself into the material being drilled, for better precision.
What part of speech is self-feed?
Self-feed can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near self-feed in the dictionary

  1. self-fabric
  2. self-faced
  3. self-facial
  4. self-facials
  5. self-fed
  6. self-feed
  7. self-feeding
  8. self-feeds
  9. self-feeling
  10. self-fertile
  11. self-fertilisation

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