All 8 Uses of
fodder
in
The Jungle Book
- "Bagheera spoke truth," he panted, as he nestled down in some cattle fodder by the window of a hut.
p. 29.7fodder = food such as hay or straw that is given to domesticated animals
- Then the elephants were chained by their hind legs to their big stumps of pickets, and extra ropes were fitted to the new elephants, and the fodder was piled before them,
p. 192.7 *fodder = food such as hay or straw
- But the sweetmeat seller in the camp lent him a little tom-tom—a drum beaten with the flat of the hand—and he sat down, cross-legged, before Kala Nag as the stars began to come out, the tom-tom in his lap, and he thumped and he thumped and he thumped, and the more he thought of the great honor that had been done to him, the more he thumped, all alone among the elephant fodder.
p. 193.5
- fodder for the kine
p. 194.1fodder = food such as hay or straw that is given to domesticated animals
- Little Toomai came in with a joyous tunk-a-tunk at the end of each verse, till he felt sleepy and stretched himself on the fodder at Kala Nag's side.
p. 194.3
- Little Toomai turned, rustling in the fodder, and watched the curve of his big back against half the stars in heaven, and while he watched he heard, so far away that it sounded no more than a pinhole of noise pricked through the stillness, the "hoot-toot" of a wild elephant.
p. 194.9
- fodder for the kine
p. 209.6
- fodder for the kine
p. 210.9
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