"feeder line" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to a smaller or subsidiary line that supplies something to a larger system or network. Example: The power outage was caused by a fault in the feeder line, which disrupted electricity supply to the entire neighborhood.
He drains the big feeder line at the end of the season.
Mesa Airlines, a feeder line for America West, said last month it would equip its pilots with Tasers.
appeared to have occurred along the route of a feeder line that carried high current from the Meadow Street substation to other towns.
appeared to have occurred along the route of a feeder line that carried high current from the Meadow Street substation to other towns... View Article By Larissa MacFarquhar By Rivka Galchen By Malcolm Gladwell By Jason Hayes.
A March 2006 leak in a transit line, also called a feeder line, between a gathering center and a pump station for the trans-Alaska oil pipeline in March accounted for most of the oil spilled, about 212,000 gallons.
Just a few days before, BP, the world's second-largest oil company, had revealed that it had discovered a dangerous amount of corrosion on a 16-mile feeder line to the Trans-Alaska Pineline in Prudhoe Bay.
The voltage was reduced because of failed feeder lines.
Further expansion by 2012 will add half as much again to the 84.4km of trunk routes and feeder lines.
"In addition, there would be lower-speed feeder lines, let's say along the Long Island Rail Road.
were built near high-current feeder lines & there were several cases of cancer but no action was taken.
In 1869 the main line was completed, meeting the Union Pacific at Promontory, Utah; feeder lines were soon added throughout California.
