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Definition of Fodder
1. Verb. Give fodder (to domesticated animals).
2. Noun. Soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire.
3. Noun. Coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop.
Specialized synonyms: Eatage, Forage, Grass, Pasturage, Pasture, Alfalfa, Broad Bean, Horse Bean, Hay, Stover
Definition of Fodder
1. n. A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19½ to 24 cwt.; a fother.
2. n. That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
3. v. t. To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.; to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.
Definition of Fodder
1. Noun. Food for animals. ¹
2. Noun. A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 1/2 to 24 cwt (993 to 1222 kg).; a fodder. ¹
3. Noun. (slang drafting design) Tracing paper. ¹
4. Noun. (figurative) ¹
5. Verb. (dialect) To feed animals (with fodder). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fodder
1. to feed with coarse food [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fodder
Literary usage of Fodder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1902)
"I start in the middle and stack two bundles up to each other, and by keeping up
the middle and not getting them flat you always keep the fodder where the ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
""Cannon fodder" By EDEN PHILLPOTTS They are coming like a tempest, in their
endless ranks of gray, While the world throws up a cloud of dust along their ..."
3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1874)
"In addition to corn-fodder, he gives each cow four quarts of a mixture of shorts
... His experience is favorable to fodder-corn as a feed for milch cows. ..."
4. The Cereals in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1908)
"Maize fodder cut when nearly ripe lost about five per cent more than fodder cut
when maize was in the roasting-ear stage, evidently due to the large amount ..."
5. American Agriculturist (1843)
"STRAW fodder. JN our October No. we took occasion to speak of the value for fodder
of even so poor an arti- __ cle as buckwheat straw is generally ..."
6. Dry Land Farming by Thomas Shaw (1909)
"fodder crops that may be grown.—This discussion will consider the place: (1) ...
It will be observed that fodder crops in the discussion means such crops as ..."
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