fodder
noun
coarse food for livestock, composed of entire plants, including leaves, stalks, and grain, of such forages as corn and sorghum.
had foddered
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past perfectof fodder.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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There, when he had foddered the deep-voiced kine, he herded them huddled together into the byre, munching lotus and dewy marsh marigold; next brought he much wood, and set himself to the craft of fire-kindling.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Andrew Lang
The farm-labourers had foddered the cattle and gone home hours before.
From Half a Life-Time Ago by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
