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Fodder

/ˈfɒdə/

Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

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📖 Definitions of "Fodder"

noun

1
Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
2
A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
3
(drafting) Tracing paper.
4
Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.

verb

1
To feed animals (with fodder).

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Fodder"

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Word	Definition
foragenoun	An act or instance of foraging.
provendernoun	(dated) Food, especially for livestock.
feedstuffnoun	(uncountable) Feed for animals; fodder; an ingredient thereof.
stovernoun	Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
haynoun	(uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
silagenoun	Fermented green forage fodder stored in an airtight silo or clamp.
feedingnoun	(uncountable) The act or process of giving food.
cropnoun	(agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
feednoun	(uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
foodnoun	(uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
hottienoun	(slang, originally Australia) A physically or sexually attractive person.
eatingnoun	The act of ingesting food.
chounoun	(baking) Choux pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake with a sweet filling.
dietnoun	The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
barrelnoun	(countable) A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
hotnoun	A hot meal, usually in the phrase "three hots" (i.e. three hot meals per day) or derivations such as three hots and a cot.
canyonnoun	A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
foragingnoun	The act of searching for food or other items.
nutritionnoun	That which nourishes; nutriment.
beetnoun	(US, Canada) A beetroot; a swollen root of such a plant used as a culinary vegetable.