"handfeed" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "hand + feed",
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      "form": "handfeeds",
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      "form": "handfeeding",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1878, William O'Brien, Christmas in the Galtees: An Inquiry Into the Condition of the Tenantry of Mr. Nathaniel Buckley",
          "text": "Walker only saw the place in its deceitful summer promise, when the corn, whose husks were never to fill, was waving in sunshine, when the potato-fields, which were to yield nothing but dwarfed and rotten tubercles, were still gay in blossom, and the cattle, which for nine months of the year have to be housed and handfed with more tenderness than their masters, were luxuriating in sunny grass.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Danielle Wood, Housewife Superstar: The Very Best of Marjorie Bligh, page 97",
          "text": "Marjorie handfeeds one of her many pets, an orphaned joey, at Campbell Town.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Lajpat R. Ahuja, Agricultural System Models in Field Research and Technology Transfer",
          "text": "It would be important to keep the total number of cattle handfed on property to a minimum.",
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        "To feed by hand."
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        "(of an animal or machine) To feed by hand."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hand-carry"
        },
        {
          "word": "hand carry"
        },
        {
          "word": "handcarry"
        },
        {
          "word": "hand-deliver"
        },
        {
          "word": "hand deliver"
        },
        {
          "word": "handfed"
        },
        {
          "word": "hand-knit"
        },
        {
          "word": "hand knit"
        },
        {
          "word": "handknit"
        },
        {
          "word": "handmake"
        },
        {
          "word": "hand-pick"
        },
        {
          "word": "handpick"
        },
        {
          "word": "hand-raise"
        },
        {
          "word": "hand-wash"
        },
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          "word": "hand wash"
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          "word": "hand-feed"
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  "etymology_text": "hand + feed",
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      "word": "hand deliver"
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      "word": "handfed"
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      "word": "hand-knit"
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      "word": "hand knit"
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      "word": "handknit"
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      "word": "handmake"
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      "word": "hand-pick"
    },
    {
      "word": "handpick"
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      "word": "hand-raise"
    },
    {
      "word": "hand-wash"
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          "text": "Walker only saw the place in its deceitful summer promise, when the corn, whose husks were never to fill, was waving in sunshine, when the potato-fields, which were to yield nothing but dwarfed and rotten tubercles, were still gay in blossom, and the cattle, which for nine months of the year have to be housed and handfed with more tenderness than their masters, were luxuriating in sunny grass.",
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        },
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          "text": "It would be important to keep the total number of cattle handfed on property to a minimum.",
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        "To feed by hand."
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    {
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    },
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