单词 | foddering |
释义 | fodderingn. 1. The action of giving fodder to cattle or other animals. Formerly also (in quot. 1655): †an act of manuring land by means of the dung of animals feeding there (obsolete).Recorded earliest in foddering-bing at Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] foddering1391 meatingc1425 provenderinga1450 1391 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 81 [Pales for making cows'] foderyngbyng. 1549 Lanark Sheriff Court 16v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Foddering The said Ryche..grantit that he had sic ane lik qwy..in fodering & gresing. ?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Eiiiv Farthest..from skil: But yf it be in fodderyng of a beast. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 23 The sheepe-folding and foddering. 1625 G. Markham Inrichm. Weald of Kent 14 Pastorage, through the donguing, treading, & foddering of Cattell, doth increase a new Mould. 1655 S. Hartlib Legacy (ed. 3) 249 This way of pasturing of Clover, will be a kind of foddering of the land, and rather improve then impair it. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Barn Barns..for..the more convenient Foddering of Cattle with the Straw. 1848 H. S. Randall Sheep Husb. in South v. 61 The preparation of hay, and labor of foddering, are also dispensed with. a1921 J. Burroughs My Boyhood (1922) 12 In summer the day began with the milking and ended with the milking, and in winter it began with the foddering and ended with the foddering. 2011 J. Knight Herding Monkeys to Paradise v. 282 Regular but limited foddering reduces the risk and uncertainty associated with open-range husbandry. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder fodderOE foragec1315 provender1340 provend?a1400 foddering1430 feed1594 farrage1609 roughness1813 trough-meat1844 1430 in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 416/1 The Kynges owen Servauntes..be preferred unto hem..so that thei have no cause to complayne..for lak of Fotheryng. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 401 Ten pound of it is a sufficient foddering for an horse. 1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies vii. 90 It produces nothing remarkable, and yields only a scanty foddering for a few cattle. 1808 J. C. Curwen Hints Econ. Feeding Stock 55 A foddering of straw from six to eight pounds. 1907 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 68 185 A foddering of clover being given once a day for a few weeks before coming down for calving. ΚΠ 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 46 Then did she reduce vnto her remembrance..what drie fodderings he did giue her. 1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 133 A foddering of prayer four hours by the Clock. 1843 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1857) IV. 267 Heavy fodderings of Jesuit theology. Compounds C1. General attributive, as †foddering-bing [bing n.1 3] , foddering boy, foddering ground, etc. ΚΠ 1391Foderyngbyng [see sense 1]. 1620 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1886) IV. 153 That messuage..allotted and falne unto him, with one fotheringe-stead. 1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver 122 Fearne, or Rushes, Thistles, or any course straw, or Trash whatever, flung or cast into the Fothering-yards. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Dairy The foddering season in the former holds so much longer, occasioned by the rowet-grass falling of a month sooner. 1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. 230 A small dry grass inclosure, (near the homestall)—provincially a ‘foddering ground’—where they have their fill of hay. 1816 tr. F. Vanderstraeten Improved Agric. 8 Roots and foddering herbs for cattle. 1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 21 Nor ling'ring wait the foddering-boy. 1837 Boston Advert. 17 Jan. 2/2 One fork and one foddering band. 1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Foddering cord, a hair and hemp cord used for binding up hay to take out to beasts. 1916 Econ. Jrnl. 26 59 Paying high prices in order to discourage the producers from using up their stocks for foddering purposes. 1992 A. Thorpe Ulverton iii. 51 This morning was deadly cold, and the foddering barton was stone-hard in white heaps. 2009 Irish Independent (Nexis) 2 June Hay and straw were stored in ricks and fed to the cattle on foddering banks. C2. foddering place n. now rare ΚΠ 1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell iii. 209 The shepheard also shall often cleanse the fodering places of his sheep. 1785 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. Midland Counties (1790) II. 53 The foddering place..lay with so great a descent, the best of the dung was washed away by heavy rains. 1936 K. Morehouse Rain on Just xviii. 263 Unstaked the old cow and led her down to a foddering place. ΚΠ 1694 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in Ann. Misc. 41 Salt Herbage for the fodd'ring Rack provide. 1803 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 26 Mar. (advt.) Twenty Dozen of Hurdles, several Staddles, Foddering Rack, &c. 1879 Amer. Agriculturalist Jan. 2/3 A cheap foddering rack, covered and protected from the weather, should be provided in every yard. foddering time n. ΚΠ a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 11 As soone as fotheringe time is past..remoove them. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. vi. xlix. 214 How is it we've got sight o' you so long before foddering-time? 1999 A. Rinaldi Coffin Quilt xi. 72 Lots of kids weren't in school but home for foddering time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1391 |
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