fodder

Meanings

Noun

• Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
• A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
• Tracing paper.
• Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
• The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.

Verb

• To feed animals (with fodder).

Related

Similar words

• forage, provender
• See load

Narrower meaning words

• See load

Origin

• From , foder, from , from (compare Saterland Frisian Fodder, West Frisian foer, Dutch voer ("pasture; fodder"), German Futter ("fodder; feed"), Danish foder, Swedish foder), from *fōdô 'food', from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ("to guard, graze, feed"). More at food.