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Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

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fodder

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Source Word

fodder

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈfɒdə/

Noun

countable uncountable historical slang figuratively

Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

Japanese Meaning

飼料 / 動物の餌

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Farmers stored extra fodder in the barn before the harsh winter arrived.

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農家は厳しい冬が来る前に納屋に余分な飼料を蓄えた。

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Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep.

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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.

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Sense（3）

(slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.

Sense（4）

(figuratively) Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.

According to the audio commentary on “Treehouse Of Horror III,” some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the “Treehouse Of Horror” franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof.

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(cryptic crosswords) The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.

In (part of) Shelley's poem Ozymandias is a "crumbling statue". If this is the explanation then the clue is not a reverse cryptic in the same was as GEGS -> SCRAMBLED EGGS but a normal clue where where the fodder and anagrind are *both* indirect.

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