n.1 a person or thing that feeds.
2 a person who eats in a specified manner.
3 a child's feeding-bottle.
4 Brit. a bib for an infant.
5 a tributary stream.
6 a branch road, railway line, etc., linking outlying districts with a main communication system.
7 Electr. a main carrying electricity to a distribution point.
8 a hopper or feeding apparatus in a machine.