fodderedadj.
/ˈfɒdəd/, U.S. /ˈfɑdərd/ Fed on or provided with fodder. Also of ground: †used as a place for foddering cattle (obsolete).figurative in quot. 1692.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [adjective] > fed
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xxviii. 24 Þat womman forsoþe hadde a foddred [a1425 L.V. fat; L. pascualem] calf in þe hous.
1692 J. Dryden Cleomenes iii. ii. 32 Accurs'd be thou, Grass-eating fodder'd God!
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Dict. in Compl. Gard'ner sig. a4 Fotherd Grounds, is ground upon which Cattel are fed upon in Winter, with Hay, &c. to better it.
1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day ii. 39 The fodder'd Beast.
1793 Ann. Agric. 20 265 As to hay they held it bad to give it; several cases being known in which foddered sheep fared the worst.
1863 8th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. ii. 52 It will require the attraction of provender..to bring them [sc. sheep] back to their foddered rack.
1886 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 18 274 A generous, slender youth..were lovelier to me than any foddered ass.
1957 Agric. Hist. 31 11/1 In the early 1850's..Illinois prairie-fed and foddered cattle of 0-5 years of age were ready for the market at a cost of $6-$12 per head for the producer.
2014 M. Hicks in R. Harrison & R. A. Maher Human Ecodynamics in N. Atlantic viii. 144 Cattle accounted for 1 percent of all of the living, foddered animals in the district.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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