Food for domestic livestock; SYN. provender.
See news feed.

A quantity sufficient to satisfy.

ETYM From Fill.
1. Copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper.
2. Substance used for filling cracks or holes in a surface.
3. The tobacco used to form the core of a cigar.

Coarse food (especially for cattle and horses) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop.

ETYM Old Fren. fourage, French fourrage, from forre, fuerre, fodder, straw, French feurre, from Late Lat. foderum, fodrum, of German or Scand, origin; cf. Old High Germ. fuotar, German futter. Related to Fodder food, and cf. Foray.
1. The act of foraging; searching for provisions.
2. Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.

Fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo; SYN. ensilage.
any green crop stored for use as animal fodder
green fodder preserved for winter in silo by fermentation.
Fodder preserved through controlled fermentation in a silo, an airtight structure that presses green crops. It is used as a winter feed for livestock. The term also refers to stacked crops that may be preserved indefinitely.