FEELER


Meaning of FEELER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

put

I bus-hopped down to Covent Garden to start putting the feelers out for Werewolf.

Their intelligence agency, the Kempeitai, put out feelers to nationalists like Ngo Dinh Diem.

Bismarck followed it up by putting out a feeler to Great Britain, but nothing came of it.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

put out feelers

Their intelligence agency, the Kempeitai, put out feelers to nationalists like Ngo Dinh Diem.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Clive felt delicate feelers worming through his mind, draining his pain, his fear.

Hanoi, meanwhile, had sent out peace feelers.

Sea-anglers dot the foreshore, their rods like the jittery feelers of crayfish or the dials of a Geiger counter.

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