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wild feed en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Uncultivated food sources.
    • There's probably enough wild feed for them growing around the place you're going. 2004, Billijo Doll, The Seekers, →ISBN, page 72:
    • Llamas typically carry smaller loads than horses and mules and cannot be pushed as hard, but they are trained to walk untethered in a caravan and can subsist on local wild feed. 2016, José M. Capriles, Nicholas Tripcevich, The Archaeology of Andean Pastoralism, →ISBN, page 212:
  2. (countable, uncountable) A private satellite transmission of broadcast material, not meant for public viewing.
    • Framestores avoid the danger of genlocking the studio to an outside source and add a smoothness to switching in or overlaying the wild feed without picture breakup. 1977, Broadcast Engineering - Volume 19, page 48:
    • Kavin Rafferty and James Ridgeway;s documentary is an invaluable look at the early days of the 1992 presidential election through a collection of wild feeds, affording us glimpses of the real men behind the well-crafted facades they present to the public. 2002, Tom Wiener, The Off-Hollywood Film Guide, →ISBN:
    • She was watching the wild feed from Paris on the last day of September. 2013, Vanessa Grant, Yesterday's Vows, →ISBN:

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wild feed en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To forage for food in the wild; to eat from naturally occurring sources rather than domestically-produced food.
    • Although crustacean parts are common in king crab stomachs, evidence of cannibalism is scarce in studies of wild feeding. 2014, Bradley G. Stevens, King Crabs of the World: Biology and Fisheries Management, →ISBN, page 341:
    • Hence, although an animal is able to maximize its energy gain from provisioning to an extent impossible in wild feeding, when energy returns decrease in relation to greater social stress it may no longer be profitable for an animal to stay around the provisioning site. 2012, H.O. Box, Primate Responses to Environmental Change, →ISBN, page 154:
    • The birds were wild feeding on the bait that the bonito were scaring the bait out. 2013, Vernona Kay “Snookie” Fath, A Local Pacific Piscatologist: A Lifetime of Fishing, →ISBN, page 95:

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wild feeds Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic