The word 'feeler' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use 'feeler' to describe a person who obtains information by asking questions. For example, "Maggie is a great feeler; she has a knack for getting people to open up."
Mr Balasingham of course knows this, and his Madras proposal may be a feeler to see whether India, once the Tigers' patron, remains its enemy.
It's a brilliant piece of work and rather more readable than the actual words of the charming but rambly be-ruffed tower-bound thinker and feeler.
Once, his brash younger brother, Rengan, put out a feeler for inside information to a friend from Stanford's business school who had become Kumar's protégé at McKinsey.
Recently Phil Gramm's supporters put out a feeler to Bennett, asking if he might be interested in a running-mate position--the natural spot from which to counter the Buchananite faction.
He held out a hand and I desperately reached for it with my tiny feeler.
It is my belief that the log symbolizes the precariousness of Existence, while the tiny feeler represents Man's essential powerlessness.
Cusk eels are characterized by the union of their dorsal, anal, and tail fins into a single long fin, and by the position of their feeler-like pelvic fins, which are on the throat and act as sensory devices, searching out food as the fish swims along the bottom.
When you do touch down it's the feeler-equipped foot pegs that grind first, giving you plenty of warning before more substantial bits start to spew sparks.
Haag writes, "Maybe this century's culture is a culture of feeling in which the ideal citizen-feeler has the qualities of soulful transparency, audacious disclosure, and candor, and who knows the skills of whispered confession...."....
MUCH has been written about Meryl Streep's portrayal of Margaret Thatcher as feeler-not-thinker in the film "The Iron Lady," but what about the clothes?
The dancers began by rising from the floor, testing the air with feeler-fingers, gathering together and turning towards the light.
