Fodder

Noun

 * 1) Food for animals.
 * 2) 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 fother.
 * 3) * 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.
 * 1)  Tracing paper.

Derived terms

 * cannon fodder

Thesaurus
barley, bed, bed down, bird seed, board, bran, bread, break, bridle, brush, cat food, chicken feed, chop, corn, curry, currycomb, dine, dog food, drench, eatage, ensilage, feed, forage, gentle, grain, grass, gratify, graze, groom, handle, harness, hay, hitch, litter, manage, mash, meal, meat, mess, milk, oats, pasturage, pasture, pet food, provender, provision, regale, rub down, saddle, satisfy, scratch, scratch feed, silage, slops, straw, sustain, swill, tame, tend, train, water, wheat, wine and dine, yoke

Etymology
fōdor, from (compare  voer: 'pasture, fodder',  Futter: 'feed',  foder), from *fōda 'food', from  'to feed'. More at food.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: фураж
 * Chinese: 飼料, 饲料
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: veevoeder, veevoer, kanonnenvoer (cannon fodder)
 * Estonian: sööt
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, takarmány
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 飼葉
 * Kannada: Pranigala Ahara
 * Korean: 꼴 (kkor, -l) (grass), 먹이 (meogI), 사료 (飼料, saryo)
 * Kurdish: ئالیک
 * Latin: ,
 * Macedonian:, сточна храна,  помија
 * Polish: pasza, (for horses) obrok
 * Romanian: furaj,,  strânsură
 * Russian: корм (korm)
 * Serbian: крма, крмиво, сплачина, помиjа
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

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