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hand-feed
[ hand-feed ]
verb (used with object)
- Agriculture. to feed (animals) with apportioned amounts at regular intervals. Compare self-feed.
- to feed (an animal or person) by hand:
The students hand-fed the baby monkeys with an eyedropper.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hand-feed1
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Example Sentences
Watch the scuba diver hand feed giant turtles, sting rays and even the menacing moray eels in the Hawaiian Reef Tank.
Try and grow a bit of hand-feed for your cows as a stand-by, no matter how good a dairying district you're in.
He carried the slop-buckets to the pigsty for her, and helped to poddy (hand feed) a young calf.
The test for range can be carried out by any ordinary hand-feed lamp.
All portable stage lamps are hand feed and require close attention on the part of operators.
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