feeder

noun

• 1a person or animal that eats a particular food or in a particular manner:a plankton feeder

• 2a container filled with food for birds or mammals.
• British a child’s feeding bottle.
• British a bib for an infant.
• Fishingshort for swimfeeder.

• 3a person or thing that supplies something, in particular:
• a device supplying material to a machine:the automatic sheet feeder holds up to 10 sheets of paper
• a tributary stream.
• [usually as modifier] a branch road or railway line linking outlying districts with a main communication system.
• a main carrying electricity to a distribution point.
• [usually as modifier] a school, sports team, etc. from which members move on to one more advanced:a sixth-form college and its feeder schools