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Fodder

//ˈfɒdə//

Definitions

1
Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep.
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forage provender
2
A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19 1/2 hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times.
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load
3
Tracing paper.

1
To feed animals (with fodder).
Straw will do well enough to fodder them with

Word Origin

From Middle English fodder, foder, from Old English fōdor (“feed; fodder”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą, from *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard,...

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