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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.; 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.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: veevoeder , veevoer, kanonnenvoer (cannon fodder)
  • French: fourrage
  • German: Futter
  • Italian: foraggio
  • Spanish: forraje
Etymology: fÅdor


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