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noun
Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: forage, provender
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
Tracing paper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
Topics: arts, design, drafting, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: crosswording
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noun
People considered to have negligible value and easily available or expendable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To feed animals (with fodder).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: feed, provender
Narrower terms: eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grass, alfalfa, broad bean, horse bean, hay, stover
noun
soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cannon fodder, fresh fish
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: soldier
verb
give fodder (to domesticated animals)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: feed, give
History
From Middle English fodder, foder, from Old English fōdor (“feed; fodder”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą, from *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh2- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Compare Saterland Frisian Fodder, West Frisian foer, Dutch voer (“pasture; fodder”), German Futter (“fodder; feed”), Danish foder, Swedish foder. More at food.
Across languages
114 source translations are retained for this English entry.
