Fodder
WordNet
noun
(1) Coarse food (especially for cattle and horses) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
verb
(2) Give fodder (to domesticated animals)
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Food for animals.
- A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 1/2 to 24 cwt (993 to 1222 kg).; a fother.
- 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 168:
- 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.
- 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 168:
- Tracing paper.