feeding
/ˈfiːdɪŋ/ noun A2- The act or process of giving food. · premium blend for feeding of dairy herds
- An instance or session of giving food. · the morning feeding might differ from the evening feeding in protein content· optimal intervals between feedings for neonates with weak esophagogastric sphincter
- The act or process of eating. · feeding from round bales is necessary here in winter, when pasturage is ebbed
- An instance or session of eating. · picked up hardware disease during a feeding outside the intended pasture
- That which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder.
- That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals.
- The loading of material into a machine that will process it. · caution in the feeding of the No. 3 mill
Plural feedings
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A WOLF saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where he had no chance of reaching her.
SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat.
The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold.
A CRAB, forsaking the seashore, chose a neighboring green meadow as its feeding ground.
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