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FODDER

Volume 8 · 82 words · 1815 Edition

any kind of meat for horses or other cattle. In some places, hay and straw, mingled together, is peculiarly denominated fodder.

in the civil law, is used for a prerogative that the prince has, to be provided with corn and other meats for his horses, by the subjects, in his warlike expeditions.

among miners, a measure containing 22 hundred and a half weight; in London the fodder is only 20 hundred weight.

FODDERING a ship. See FOTHERING.

POENUGREEK. See TRIGONELLA, BOTANY Index.