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foddered

  • past participle
    of fodder.
    fodder
    noun
    coarse food for livestock, composed of entire plants, including leaves, stalks, and grain, of such forages as corn and sorghum.
  • past tense form
    of fodder.
    fodder
    noun
    coarse food for livestock, composed of entire plants, including leaves, stalks, and grain, of such forages as corn and sorghum.

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The cow was foddered with after-math, hay, and potatoes; the horse with the same hay and oats.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Richard L. Allen

The young ones are well foddered, especially while they are still calves.

From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

I love to start out arter night's begun, An' all the chores about the farm are done, The critters milked an' foddered, gates shet fast, Tools cleaned aginst to-morrer, supper past.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

The fruit is also valuable for provender, as animals foddered with it speedily get quite fat, while its wood, growing with great rapidity, is in much request for fuel.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

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 Rutherford Mayne