Word Finder - fodder

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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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A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.

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(drafting) Tracing paper.

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

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

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To feed animals (with fodder).

The leaves are used as fodder in northern latitudes.

His highest duty to fodder and water his horses!

Besides the use of the straw when cut up and mixed with other food for fodder, the oat grain constitutes an important food for both man and beast.

Grassland; commonly cultivated as a fodder plant and widely naturalized.

Panicum Crus-galli is a polymorphic cosmopolitan grass, which is often grown for fodder; in one form (P. frumentaceum) it is cultivated in India for its grain.

Before this thread is over taken by guitar geek wank fodder....

Child actors endear viewers with their charm and ability but they tend to become tabloid fodder once they've grown up.

Bronze sickles could have been better employed to collect fodder (most probably leaf or twig foddering) for working animals, especially horses.

With the extent of coverage available, these celebrity deaths turn into high-profile whodunits that become fodder for water coolers around the world.

More wind, more cannon fodder, more mountains…you name it, it's there.

Horses appear to be fond of this species, and in Sweden it is stored for use as winter fodder.

The country to the east and south-east of the Aravallis affords a striking contrast to the sandy plains on the north-west of the range, and is blessed with fertile lands, hill-ranges and long stretches of forest, where fuel and fodder are abundant.

Horse beans are grown, especially in the south and in the larger islands; lupines are also grown for fodder.

Ten years before, John Worlidge, one of his correspondents, and the author of the Systema Agriculturae (1669), observes, " Sheep fatten very well on turnips, which prove an excellent nourishment for them in hard winters when fodder is scarce; for they will not only eat the greens, but feed on the roots in the ground, and scoop them hollow even to the very skin.

The young shoots are also given to oxen in the long winters of those northern latitudes, when other green fodder is hard to obtain.

The principal products are corn, oats, barley, potatoes, rye, beetroot, hemp, flax, hay and other fodder.

Neither of these is much grown in Great Britain for the production of oil, but the "winter" variety is very extensively grown as green food for sheep. For this purpose it is generally sown at short intervals throughout the summer to provide a succession of fodder.

The young shoots of the larch are sometimes given in Switzerland as fodder to cattle.

In Germany it is occasionally raised for green fodder.

Rice, barley and wheat are the chief cereals cultivated, and lucerne for fodder.

Theophrastus says the leaves are sweet and used for fodder for most kinds of cattle.

Scottish Dance Theater will appear with Highland, something the artistic director calls " perfect Fringe fodder " .

The summer season was also shorter, which meant that less crops could be grown for animal fodder to last over a longer winter.

In other words they're the usual teen fodder we've come to expect from genre offerings like this.

You'd think this would be ideal technical blog fodder wouldn't you...?

You were betrayed by your group - cannon fodder to trigger the trap they knew had been set for them.

The peasantry were also called upon as canon fodder in times of war.

Rather than burn field stubble, farmers could mix the organic residue with nutrients to make cattle fodder.

You obviously have a disregard for democracy after allowing yourself to be used as lobby fodder for Tony Blair.

For some, the need is for a bigger hay harvest to boost winter fodder reserves.

In winter, some additional fodder, such as grass or alfalfa hay may be provided.

There is a local tradition of gathering and storing birch twigs for winter fodder, and cutting fresh holly for winter feed.

I know I know, not normal radio fodder it just happened to be on, honest john.

White clover has been an important constituent of fodder since the 17th century and is the most important pasture legume in Britain.

The rice-wheat rotation has led to the displacement of grain and fodder legumes capable of enriching soil fertility.

They are intended to monitor the long term impact of the cultivation of an AgrEvo GM fodder maize.

Three crops are involved - sugar beet, oilseed rape and fodder maize - all modified to be herbicide resistant.

Eleven years in the graveyard of English football a few rungs above Hackney Marshes fodder is not nearly good enough.

The indigenous population were easy fodder for an Armada of Portuguese sailors.

Basically there were plenty of naturally regenerating seedlings - farmers cut back those they did not want to develop into fodder trees.

The bark is poisonous and the plant, when used for fodder, is said to produce stomatitis in animals.

Before this thread is over taken by guitar geek wank fodder... .

The two meteorological events of the decade which will probably live longest in the recollection were, however, the terrible drought of 1893, resulting in a fodder famine in the succeeding winter, and the severe frost of ten weeks' duration at the beginning of 1895.

After attending the Latin school of his native town, Gotthold was sent in 1741 to the famous school of St Afra at Meissen, where he made such rapid progress, especially in classics and mathematics, that, towards the end of his school, career he was described by the rector as "a steed that needed double fodder."

Well, to mention only firewood and fodder, let me inform you.

The British colonies also provided design fodder for furniture manufacturers and designers.

If you are a fan of the Spiderman comic series, then you know that the character and all of the drama and conflict he experiences present excellent fodder for the video game industry.

Sometimes unexpected events, like the wind blowing away your beach umbrella or your child dumping sand on her head, are great fodder for creativity.

Making for more tabloid fodder, Paris was burglarized five times, the first time in October 2008, by the Bling Ring, a group of Hollywood teenagers that broke into the homes of celebrities and stole their possessions.

Met with the pressures of fame and fortune, Spears' life quickly became tabloid fodder.