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Etymology

Old English fōdor

Pronunciation

Noun

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Singular fodder

Plural uncountable

fodder (uncountable)

  1. Food for animals.
  2. A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 1/2 to 24 cwt (993 to 1222 kg).; a fother.
    Quotations
    • 1866, 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. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 168.
  3. (slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.

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