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ərnoun
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.
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Fodder
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| to run away hurriedly; flee. |
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Word Origin & History
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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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Fodder definition
Heb. belil, (Job 6:5), meaning properly a mixture or medley (Lat. farrago), "made up of various kinds of grain, as wheat, barley, vetches, and the like, all mixed together, and then sown or given to cattle" (Job 24:6, A.V. "corn," R.V. "provender;" Isa. 30:24, provender").
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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