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Definition of Overfeed
1. Verb. Feed excessively.
Definition of Overfeed
1. v. t. & i. To feed to excess; to surfeit.
Definition of Overfeed
1. Verb. (transitive) To feed a person or animal too much. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To eat more than is necessary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overfeed
1. to feed too much [v -FED, -FEEDING, -FEEDS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overfeed
Literary usage of Overfeed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1917)
"overfeed Step Grates. — In stokers of the overfeed step grate type coal is pushed
in at the top of the slope and caked by the aid of a fire-brick arch and ..."
2. The Diplomatic Relations of England with the Quadruple Alliance, 1815-1830 by Louis Calvert, Myrna M. Boyce, Paul Padgette (1918)
"Scenery Should Suggest not Copy Life, Should Stimulate not overfeed or Starve
the Imagination—The Ironworks in Galsworthy's Strife, ..."
3. Mechanical Stokers: Including the Theory of Combustion of Coal by Joseph G. Worker, Thomas A. Peebles (1922)
"Thus, the fundamental principles of the present forms of traveling grate, overfeed
and underfeed stokers, were established. The principle of the traveling ..."
4. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1914)
"THE STREET overfeed LOCOMOTIVE STOKER. The Street Stoker is of what is known as
the scatter type; that is, the coal is scattered in a shower over the ..."
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