| Definitions | fodder
noun
- Food for animals.
- A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 1/2 to 24 cwt.; 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.
- (context, slang, drafting, design) tracing paper, Tracing paper.
Translations: - Dutch: veevoeder , veevoer, kanonnenvoer (cannon fodder)
- French: fourrage
- German: Futter
- Italian: foraggio
- Spanish: forraje
Etymology: fÅdor
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