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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

... manipulation of the hardy American artisan. The honest Connecticut farmer was quietly gathering from his threshing floor the shoe-pegs, which, when intermixed with a fair proportion of oats, offered a pleasing substitute for fodder to the effete civilizations of Europe. An almost Sabbath-like stillness prevailed. Doemville was only seven miles from Hartford, and the surrounding landscape smiled with the ...

— Drift from Two Shores • Bret Harte

... assist people to ascend and descend the pyramids for a fixed sum, or for a few shillings will run up and down them like monkeys. On the way between Cairo and the pyramids, through the long alley of acacias, we passed hundreds of camels bound to the city, laden with green fodder, and newly cut clover, for stable use in town. They do not employ carts; the backs of camels and donkeys supersede the ...

— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou

... presidente, came to apologize for the occurrence of the night. They announced that the presidente, realizing what he had done, had taken to the mountains, and asked what they could do for us. We ordered fodder for our hungry beasts, food for ourselves, and a place of shelter. The town-house was offered to us, and we were moved into those quarters ...

— In Indian Mexico (1908) • Frederick Starr

... the bean family Leguminosae. Viewed from the standpoint of the American farmer it may be defined in the collective sense as a family of plants leguminous in character, which are unexcelled in furnishing forage and fodder to domestic animals, and unequaled in the renovating influences which they exert upon land. The term Trefoil is given because the leaves are divided into three leaflets. It is also applied to plants not included in the genus, but ...

— Clovers and How to Grow Them • Thomas Shaw

... and the short of it was that the cotton was found concealed in Jack Carew's rickety barn under a pile of fodder. Of those who joined Bradley Gaither in the search, not one believed that the cottor would be found on the Carew place; and some of them had even gone so far as to suggest to Mr. Gaither that his suspicions had been fathered by his ...

— Mingo - And Other Sketches in Black and White • Joel Chandler Harris

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