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He would never miss giving the pigs their dinner, he rose at half-past three in the morning, and foddered the cattle in the grey dawn, or milked a certain number of cows, with unvarying regularity.

From Hodge and His Masters by Jefferies, Richard

The horses were foddered at the other extremity, and a fire burned in the middle of the floor, the smoke escaping by the doors.

From Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. by Paton, Andrew Archibald

Father sends me out to mend gaps that were mended, or cut turf that was cut, or fodder horses that were foddered.

From The Turn of the Road A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue by Mayne, Rutherford

Have any men come home to the young women, Thinking old women do not need to hear, That you can play at being a bower-maid In a long gown although no beasts are foddered?

From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon

The horses were foddered and provided with straw, according to the rules of the service and the heart of the cavalry soldier, whose first care is always for his horse.

From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Meding, Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar