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underfeed
verb
- to give too little food to
- to supply (a furnace, engine, etc) with fuel from beneath
noun
- an apparatus by which fuel, etc, is supplied from below
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Word History and Origins
Origin of underfeed1
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Example Sentences
The most complacent Britisher cannot hope to draw off the life-blood, and underfeed, and keep it up forever.
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Underfeed your rank and file, and what sort of a fight are you going to put up against your rivals.
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It is a much more serious risk to overfeed the baby than to underfeed him.
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One of these boilers is equipped with a Jones underfeed stoker, and is baffled in the regular way.
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A great many breeders underfeed their young stock to stop growth, which I believe to be a very grave mistake.
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