FODDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fodder mean? 

• FODDER (noun)
  The noun FODDER has 2 senses:

1. soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire

2. coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop

  Familiarity information: FODDER used as a noun is rare.

• FODDER (verb)
  The verb FODDER has 1 sense:

1. give fodder (to domesticated animals)

  Familiarity information: FODDER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FODDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cannon fodder; fodder; fresh fish

Hypernyms ("fodder" is a kind of...):

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("fodder" is a kind of...):

feed; provender (food for domestic livestock)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fodder"):

eatage; forage; grass; pasturage; pasture (bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle)

alfalfa (leguminous plant grown for hay or forage)

broad bean; horse bean (a bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder)

hay (grass mowed and cured for use as fodder)

stover (the dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested)

Derivation:

fodder (give fodder (to domesticated animals))

• FODDER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give fodder (to domesticated animals)

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "fodder" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

fodder (coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop)

 Context examples 

A man without his meat or a horse without his fodder is like a wet bow-string, fit for little.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)