Both Uses of
fodder
in
Middlemarch
- The cattle may have a heavy load, but it won't help 'em to throw it over into the roadside pit, when it's partly their own fodder.
Chpt 6 *fodder = food such as hay or straw that is given to domesticated animals
- When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(fodder as in: cannon fodder) people thought of as readily expendable -- especially to further a military campaign
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(2)
(fodder as in: fodder for discussion) people or things useful for a particular purpose
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(3)
(fodder as in: cattle fodder) food such as hay or straw that is given to domesticated animals; or feeding them such food