FEEDER

noun Usage: often attributive Date: 14th century one that feeds: as, one that fattens livestock for slaughter, a device or apparatus for supplying food, one that eats or takes nourishment, 3. one that supplies, replenishes, or connects, tributary 2, a heavy wire conductor supplying electricity at some point of an electric distribution system (as from a substation), branch , a road that provides access to a major artery