Definitions
give fodder (to domesticated animals)
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep.”
“Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19 1/2 hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times.”
“Insane Roman! (4) […] Look in -sane Roman and you'll uncover NERO, the insane Roman. Dovetailing the signpost — in — with the hidden fodder — sane Roman — is inspired, an embedded style of signposting.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Livestock feed”6 letters
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