feeding

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːdɪŋ/

feeding

1. present participle of feed

feeding (plural feedings)

1. An instance of giving food.
   • 1750, The Universal Magazine (volume 7, page 52)

     […] they are nevertheless always like the lion's keeper, who, when by long patience, a thousand feedings, and a thousand clawings, he hath made a fierce lion familiar, yet never gives him meat, but with pulling back his hand, always in fear […]

2. An instance of eating (usually said of animals).
3. (dated) That which is eaten; food.
4. (dated) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pastureland.
5. The loading of material into a machine that will process it.

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