One who or that which supplies material for consumption or elaboration. An apparatus or a portion of an apparatus, often in the form of a hopper…

A contrivance for injecting; an apparatus for injecting water into the boiler of a steam-engine. Also, a device for injecting fuel into the…

Applied to similar contrivances for feeding any material to a machine, and, generally, to articles resembling a mill hopper in shape or use.

An apparatus or instrument used for supplying something, esp. as part of a larger apparatus or more complex process.

Engineering. A pipe or tube to which a set of other pipes or tubes are connected in parallel; a manifold.

a device through which the feeding of lubricant or fuel may be seen; also (with hypen) attributive.

Any of various devices that feed material into a filter (cf. feed, n. 5c). rare.

A box containing the feeding apparatus of a machine.