subs. (old).—A spoon. [A vague reference to the mouth as the place of ‘chat’ or ‘chatter.’] For synonyms, see WEDGE-FEEDER.

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  1859.  A Hundred Stretches Hence [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 159].

        And where the swag so bleakly pinched,
  A hundred stretches hence?…
The chips, the fawneys, CHATTY-FEEDERS.

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