fodder
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Old English fōdor, from Proto-Germanic *fōdran (compare Dutch voer 'pasture, fodder', German Futter 'feed', Swedish foder), from *fōda 'food', from Proto-Indo-European *pat- 'to feed'. More at food.
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[edit] Noun
fodder (uncountable)
- Food for animals.
- A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 1/2 to 24 cwt (993 to 1222 kg).; a fodder.
- 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 168:
- 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.
- 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 168:
- (slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.
[edit] Synonyms
- (animal food): provender
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
food for animals
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[edit] Verb
fodder (third-person singular simple present fodders, present participle foddering, simple past and past participle foddered)
- (dialect)To feed animals (with fodder).