Complete Definition of "fodder"

English

Etymology
OE. f�dor

Pronunciation
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:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�d�(r)|-�d�(r)

Noun
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  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.; a fother.

#:Quotations
#:*1866, 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. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 168.

  1. context|slang|drafting|design tracing paper|Tracing paper.

Derived terms
cannon fodder

Translations

trans-top|food for animals
Bulgarian: ���аж
Chinese: 飼�, 饲�
Czech: krmivo n
Danish: føde
Dutch: veevoeder n, veevoer, kanonnenvoer (cannon fodder)
Finnish: rehu
French: fourrage m
German: Futter n
Greek: �ο��ονομή f
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Italian: foraggio m
Japanese: 飼�
Kannada: Pranigala Ahara
Korean: 꼴 (kkor, -l) (grass), 먹� (meogI), �� (飼�, saryo)
Latin: cibo
Russian: ко�м m (korm)
Serbian: krma, krmivo, spla�ina, pomija
Spanish: forraje m
Swedish: foder n
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Category:Animal foods

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