A channel, duct, or pathway through which food or material is supplied to a machine or animal.
From 'feed' (Old English 'fedan') + 'way' (Old English 'weg'). Compounds of 'feed' with directional terms became common in industrial and mechanical contexts during the 19th century.
Feedways are crucial in modern agriculture and manufacturing—without them, grain mills couldn't operate efficiently, and modern animal farming would be impossible. The word reflects how we've turned natural feeding processes into engineered systems.
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