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Noun: fodder  fó-du(r)
  1. Coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
     
  2. People or material to be used for a specific purpose
     
  3. Soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire
    - cannon fodder, fresh fish
Verb: fodder  fó-du(r)
  1. Give fodder (to domesticated animals)

Derived forms: foddered, foddering, fodders

Type of: feed, feedstuff, give, pongo [Brit, informal], provender, soldier

Encyclopedia: Fodder