fodder
/ˈfɑdɚ/ noun C2- 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.
- People considered to have negligible value and easily available or expendable. · Innocent people who are arrested become fodder for the justice system.· cannon fodder
Plural fodders
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There is one other yet to pass through the shed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and until he has come and gone, your life is still in peril.” At that moment the master himself entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly fed, he went up to their racks and cried out: “Why is there such a scarcity of fodder?
“Bagheera spoke truth,” he panted, as he nestled down in some cattle fodder by the window of a hut.
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