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–noun

1.	coarse food for livestock, composed of entire plants, including leaves, stalks, and grain, of such forages as corn and sorghum.

2.	people considered as readily available and of little value: cannon fodder.

3.	raw material: fodder for a comedian's routine.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to feed with or as if with fodder.

[Origin: bef. 1000; ME; OE fodder, fōdor; c. G Futter; akin to food

]

—Synonyms 1. See feed.

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fod·der Audio Help (fŏd'ər) Pronunciation Key
n.

Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay or straw.
Raw material, as for artistic creation.
A consumable, often inferior item or resource that is in demand and usually abundant supply: romantic novels intended as fodder for the pulp fiction market.

tr.v. fod·dered, fod·der·ing, fod·ders
To feed with fodder.

[Middle English, from Old English fōdor; see pā- in Indo-European roots.]

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fodder

O.E. fodor "food," especially "food for cattle," from P.Gmc. *fodran (cf. O.N. foðr, M.Du. voeder, O.H.G. fuotar, Ger. Futter), from PIE *patrom, from *pat- "to feed" (see food).

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fodder
noun
1.	soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire [syn: cannon fodder]
2.	coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
verb
1.	give fodder (to domesticated animals)

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fodder [ˈfodə] noun

food for farm animals

Arabic:	عَلَف ، كَلأ
Chinese (Simplified):	饲料
Chinese (Traditional):	飼料
Czech:	krmivo
Danish:	foder
Dutch:	voeder
Estonian:	sööt
Finnish:	rehu
French:	fourrage
German:	das Futter
Greek:	ζωοτροφή
Hungarian:	takarmány
Icelandic:	skepnufóður
Indonesian:	makanan ternak
Italian:	foraggio

Japanese:	飼料
Korean:	가축의 먹이, 사료
Latvian:	lopbarība
Lithuanian:	pašaras
Norwegian:	fôr
Polish:	pasza
Portuguese (Brazil):	forragem
Portuguese (Portugal):	forragem
Romanian:	furaj
Russian:	фураж
Slovak:	krmivo
Slovenian:	krma
Spanish:	pienso, forraje
Swedish:	foder
Turkish:	hayvan yemi

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Fodder

Fod"der\, n. [See 1st Fother.] A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 191/2 to 24 cwt.; a fother. [Obs.]

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Fodder

Fod"der\, n. [AS. f?dder, f?ddor, fodder (also sheath case), fr. f?da food; akin to D. voeder, OHG. fuotar, G. futter, Icel. f?r, Sw. & Dan. foder. [root]75. See Food Land cf. Forage, Fur.] That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

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Fodder

Fod"der\, v.t. [imp. & p. p. Foddered (-d?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Foddering.] To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.

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Food\, n. [OE. fode, AS. f[=o]da; akin to Icel. f[ae][eth]a, f[ae][eth]i, Sw. f["o]da, Dan. & LG. f["o]de, OHG. fatunga, Gr. patei^sthai to eat, and perh. to Skr. p[=a] to protect, L. pascere to feed, pasture, pabulum food, E. pasture. [root]75. Cf. Feed, Fodder food, Foster to cherish.]

1. What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.

Note: In a physiological sense, true aliment is to be distinguished as that portion of the food which is capable of being digested and absorbed into the blood, thus furnishing nourishment, in distinction from the indigestible matter which passes out through the alimentary canal as f[ae]ces.

Note: Foods are divided into two main groups: nitrogenous, or proteid, foods, i.e., those which contain nitrogen, and nonnitrogenous, i.e., those which do not contain nitrogen. The latter group embraces the fats and carbohydrates, which collectively are sometimes termed heat producers or respiratory foods, since by oxidation in the body they especially subserve the production of heat. The proteids, on the other hand, are known as plastic foods or tissue formers, since no tissue can be formed without them. These latter terms, however, are misleading, since proteid foods may also give rise to heat both directly and indirectly, and the fats and carbohydrates are useful in other ways than in producing heat.

2. Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.

This may prove food to my displeasure. --Shak.

In this moment there is life and food For future years. --Wordsworth.

Note: Food is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds, as in food fish or food-fish, food supply.

Food vacuole (Zo["o]l.), one of the spaces in the interior of a protozoan in which food is contained, during digestion.

Food yolk. (Biol.) See under Yolk.

Syn: Aliment; sustenance; nutriment; feed; fare; victuals; provisions; meat.

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Fodder

For"age\ (?; 48), n. [OF. fourage, F. fourrage, fr. forre, fuerre, fodder, straw, F. feurre, fr. LL. foderum, fodrum, of German or Scand, origin; cf. OHG. fuotar, G. futter. See Fodder food, and cf. Foray.]

1. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.

He [the lion] from forage will incline to play. --Shak.

One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. --Milton.

Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. --Marshall.

2. Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats. --Dryden.

Forage cap. See under Cap.

Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it. --Farrow.

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Fodder

For"el\, n. [OE. forelcase, sheath, OF. forel, fourel, F. fourreau, LL. forellus, fr. OF. forre, fuerre, sheath, case, of German origin; cf. OHG. fuotar, akin to Goth. f[=o]dr; prob. not the same word as E. fodder food. Cf. Fur, Fodder food.] A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill.

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Fodder

Foth"er\, n. [OE. fother, foder, AS. f[=o]?er a cartload; akin to G. fuder a cartload, a unit of measure, OHG. fuodar, D. voeder, and perh. to E. fathom, or cf. Skr. p[=a]tr[=a] vessel, dish. Cf. Fodder a fother.]

1. A wagonload; a load of any sort. [Obs.]

Of dung full many a fother. --Chaucer.

2. See Fodder, a unit of weight.

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Fodder

1. A wagonload; a load of any sort. [Obs.]

Of dung full many a fother. --Chaucer.

2. See Fodder, a unit of weight.

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Fodder

Foth"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fothered; p. pr. & vb. n. Fothering.] [Cf. Fodder food, and G. f["u]ttern, futtern, to cover within or without, to line. [root]75.] To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack. --Totten.

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Fodder

Fud"der\, n. See Fodder, a weight.

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Fur\ (f[^u]r), n. [OE. furre, OF. forre, fuerre, sheath, case, of German origin; cf. OHG. fuotar lining, case, G. futter; akin to Icel. f[=o][eth]r lining, Goth. f[=o]dr, scabbard; cf. Skr. p[=a]tra vessel, dish. The German and Icel. words also have the sense, fodder, but this was probably a different word originally. Cf. Fodder food, Fother, v. t., Forel, n.]

1. The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.

2. The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.

3. Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.

4. pl. Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).

Wrapped up in my furs. --Lady M. W. Montagu.

5. Any coating considered as resembling fur; as: (a) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever. (b) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach. (c) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.

6. (Her.) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six. --See Tincture.

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