Fodder

Fodder - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Heb. belil, (Job 6:5), meaning properly a mixture or medley (Lat. farrago), "made up of various kinds of grain, as wheat, barley, vetches, and the like, all mixed together, and then sown or given to cattle" (Job 24:6, A.V. "corn," R.V. "provender;" Isa. 30:24, provender").

Fodder - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

FOD'DER, n.

1. Food or dry food for cattle, horses and sheep, as hay, straw and other kinds of vegetables. The word is never applied to pasture.

2. In mining, a measure containing 20 hundred, or 22 1/2 hundred.

FOD'DER, v.t. To feed with dry food, or cut grass, _c.; to furnish with hay, straw, oats, _c. Farmers fodder their cattle twice or thrice in a day.

fod'-er.

See PROVENDER.