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The farm-labourers had foddered the cattle and gone home hours before.

From Half a Life-Time Ago by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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 Lang, Andrew