Underfeed

Word UNDERFEED
Character 9
Hyphenation un der feed
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Underfeed"

What do we mean by underfeed?

To feed insufficiently. transitive verb

To supply (an engine) with fuel from the underside. transitive verb

To supply with too little food; feed insufficiently.

Noting apparatus which feeds or supplies fresh material from below; specifically, noting a form of mechanical feeder for fuel of boiler-furnaces, designed for bituminous coal rich in volatile components.

To feed with too little food; to supply with an insufficient quantity of food. transitive verb

To feed inadequately or insufficiently verb

To feed inadequately or insufficiently

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The word "underfeed" in example sentences

The most complacent Britisher cannot hope to draw off the life-blood, and underfeed, and keep it up forever. ❋ Unknown (2010)

GRACE: I don ` t know that I believe that, underfeed a baby so the baby can be sexy? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Among other things, she is saying that Anna Nicole ordered her to underfeed the baby so the baby could be -- and I'll give you the quote -- "sexy." ❋ Unknown (2007)

And she ordered this nanny, according to the affidavit, to underfeed the child with baby food, and the nanny says that the baby looked undernourished as a result. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Because we heard in an affidavit filed by the nanny who was fired that she claims Anna Nicole Smith told her to deliberately underfeed the child. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Chain grate stokers in general produce less smoke than either overfeed or underfeed types, due to the fact that there are no cleaning periods necessary. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Mechanical Stokers are of three general types: 1st, overfeed; 2nd, underfeed; and 3rd, traveling grate. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In the horizontal classes of underfeed stokers, the action of a screw carries the fuel back through a retort from which it passes upward, as the fuel above is consumed, the ash being finally deposited on dead plates on either side of the retort, from which it can be removed. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The traveling grate stokers are sometimes classed as overfeed but properly should be classed by themselves as under certain conditions they are of the underfeed rather than the overfeed type. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

A great many breeders underfeed their young stock to stop growth, which I believe to be a very grave mistake. ❋ Edward Axtell (N/A)

She will overwork you, I'm afraid: I only hope she won't underfeed you. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is a much more serious risk to overfeed the baby than to underfeed him. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

One of these boilers is equipped with a Jones underfeed stoker, and is baffled in the regular way. ❋ Herbert M. Wilson (N/A)

Under an unwise or indolent herder the sheep going on an unaccustomed trail will overtravel and underfeed, until in the midst of good pasture they starve upon their feet. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)

"You shouldn't underfeed the poor kid," said Wally. ❋ Mary Grant Bruce (1918)

He did not overwork nor underfeed his slaves and he was sparing of the lash. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The most complacent Britisher cannot hope to draw off the life blood, and underfeed, and keep it up forever. ❋ Unknown (1903)

But many farmers about here will overwork and underfeed all the week, and on Sunday talk about being 'merciful to their beasts.' ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

In order to keep them in subjection they underfeed them, and if any of them venture to steal cocoa-nuts from the trees the owners thereof are at liberty to shoot them and throw them into the sea. ❋ Francis B. Pearson (1859)

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