fodder
coarse food for livestock, composed of entire plants, including leaves, stalks, and grain, of such forages as corn and sorghum.
people considered as readily available and of little value: cannon fodder.
raw material: fodder for a comedian's routine.
to feed with or as if with fodder.
Origin of fodder
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How to use fodder in a sentence
Old Lasse was sitting in an empty cow-stall, mending Pelle's clothes, while the boy played up and down the foddering passage.
Pelle the Conqueror, Complete | Martin Anderson NexoHe had heard the door of the cow-stable open, and steps upon the long foddering-passage.
Pelle the Conqueror, Complete | Martin Anderson NexoThey might think themselves lucky they did not have to do the foddering for the men who went out as well as their own.
Pelle the Conqueror, Complete | Martin Anderson NexoLasse stood still in the middle of the foddering-passage, and pondered with bent head.
Pelle the Conqueror, Complete | Martin Anderson NexoPelle took his books and seated himself in the foddering-passage just in front of the big bull.
Pelle the Conqueror, Complete | Martin Anderson Nexo
British Dictionary definitions for fodder
/ (ˈfɒdə) /
bulk feed for livestock, esp hay, straw, etc
raw experience or material: fodder for the imagination
(tr) to supply (livestock) with fodder
Origin of fodder
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