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Fodder

noun

Soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire. Synonyms: cannon fodder, fresh fish.

Coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop.

verb

(past & past part. foddered; pres. part. foddering)

Give fodder (to domesticated animals).

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"Fodder" Quotes from Famous Books

... the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder? Would one eat things insipid without salt? Is there taste in ...

— The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur • Emile Joseph Dillon

... its lowest point, as if in the centre of an amphitheatre.[23] Each was on an average of about 400 acres,[24] but sometimes more.[25] Tracts of low, swampy grounds, possibly some miles from the cabin, were cleared for meadows, the fodder being stacked, and hauled ...

— The Winning of the West, Volume One - From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 • Theodore Roosevelt

... old, or unlikely to survive the severity of the coming winter, is often suffered to go dry during the summer, and get her own living, till she is fit to kill in the fall. Such an animal is often slaughtered very advantageously, especially if the settler have little fodder for his cattle. The beef is often excellent, and good store of candles and soap may be made from the inside fat. These candles, if made three parts beef and one part hogs lard, wil burn better than any store-candles, and cost less than half ...

— The Backwoods of Canada • Catharine Parr Traill

... consisting of various sorts of vegetables and watercress—poor in quality, for the season was winter, and all of them uncooked. In the centre of this fodder—whether placed there in obedience to some religious tradition or by way of ornament, or perhaps to assist the digestive process of the god, as a tenpenny nail is said to assist that of an ostrich—was a fine ruby stone; not so big, indeed, ...

— The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard

... transported above an hundred, and much of it near two hundred miles through new and bad roads; which has made the expense of some articles equal to the first cost, and many of them much more. The cheapest fodder I had the last winter to support my team and a few cows was brought forty miles on ...

— The History of Dartmouth College • Baxter Perry Smith

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