For those of you intent upon seeing my ugly face there is a feed of me talking about some strange words on SBS, the Australian television network.
You can have a look at it by following this link.
I think this is feed in sense 3b in the OED:
An allowance or meal (of corn, oats, etc.) given to a horse, etc.
I assumed that sort of feed was the more mechanical:
ReplyDelete5.
a. The action or process of ‘feeding’ a machine, or supplying material to be operated upon.
b. The material supplied; also the amount supplied; the ‘charge’ of a gun.