- self-feeder
- noun Date: 1924 a device for providing feed to livestock that is equipped with a feed hopper that automatically supplies a trough below
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self-feeder — /self fee deuhr, self /, n. an apparatus or machine that automatically discharges a supply of some material, esp. one consisting of a hopper and a trough for feeding livestock. [1825 35] * * * … Universalium
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