All 7 Uses of
fodder
in
War and Peace
- But as it turns out, just at that moment a third enemy rises before us—namely the Orthodox Russian soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot!†
Chpt 5
- For days neither provisions for the men nor fodder for the horses had been issued.†
Chpt 5
- Despite their pale swollen faces and tattered uniforms, the hussars formed line for roll call, kept things in order, groomed their horses, polished their arms, brought in straw from the thatched roofs in place of fodder, and sat down to dine round the caldrons from which they rose up hungry, joking about their nasty food and their hunger.†
Chpt 5
- What struck him most was the sight of a splendid field of oats in which a camp had been pitched and which was being mown down by the soldiers, evidently for fodder.†
Chpt 10
- "Flesh, bodies, cannon fodder!" he thought, and he looked at his own naked body and shuddered, not from cold but from a sense of disgust and horror he did not himself understand, aroused by the sight of that immense number of bodies splashing about in the dirty pond.†
Chpt 10
- Alpatych named others, but they too, according to Dron, had no horses available: some horses were carting for the government, others were too weak, and others had died for want of fodder.†
Chpt 10
- Well, to mention only firewood and fodder, let me inform you.†
Chpt 10 *
Definition:
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(fodder as in: cannon fodder) people thought of as readily expendable to further a military campaign