Read full poem →A brandy and tobacco shop is near,
And hens, and dogs, and hogs are feeding by;
And here a sailor's jacket hangs to dry.
Dictionary Entry
(ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
In a Sentence
“Feed the dog every evening.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. feedinghabits feedingfeeding breast
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Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “feeding”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And doth he sometimes in his slumbering see
The feeding kine, and doth he think of me,
My sweetheart wandering wheresoe’er it be?
Read full poem →Ah, yet I am not satisfied with this!
Am I not feeding spiritual pride,
Rejoicing over sinners, inelect
Read full poem →The ocean broad, the mountains bright,
The shadowy vales with feeding herds,
I from my lyre the music smite,
Read full poem →To take me in his arms again, would choke
With fast and heavy feeding.
Read full poem →herself with added zest into the Suffrage struggle. The fortnight of
good feeding, of quiet nights and lazy days under her mother's roof
had done her much good. She was not quite so thin, the dark circles
Read full poem →The cows upon the lea,
Sheep feeding by the pasture rills,
Are ever dear to me,
Read full poem →I shall roll on the grass with two-fold ease:
For I have long time been my fancy feeding
With hopes that you would one day think the reading
Read full poem →So it _must_ be! yet, while leading
A strained life, while over-feeding,
Like the rest, his wit with reading,
Read full poem →Of young Anchises, _55
Feeding his herds among the mossy fountains
Of the wide Ida's many-folded mountains,--