1. [n]  coarse food (especially for cattle and horses) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
2. [v]  give fodder (to domesticated animals)

1. \Fod"der\, n. [See 1st {Fother}.]
   A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly
   sold, in England, varying from 191/2 to 24 cwt.; a fother.
   [Obs.]
   

2. \Fod"der\, n. [AS. f?dder, f?ddor, fodder (also sheath
   case), fr. f?da food; akin to D. voeder, OHG. fuotar, G.
   futter, Icel. f?r, Sw. & Dan. foder. [root]75. See Food Land
   cf. {Forage}, {Fur}.]
   That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay,
   cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
   

3. \Fod"der\, v.t. [imp. & p. p. {Foddered} (-d?rd); p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Foddering}.]
   To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to
   furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.
   

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").