Example Sentences

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Tommy Eye, teamster, stumbling towards the hovel for the early foddering, came upon him, and stopped and stared in utter amazement.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

We gave the sheep a foddering of hay and then got the flock outdoors.

From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

The hay is pitched into this holder in fair weather, enough for a day’s foddering at a time, and is taken from it by the fork and placed in the racks.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert

"Yes, the farmer takes lots of comfort, walking on the road, foddering cattle, cutting wood."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various

When foddering, to cheer the Poor herd in the stall— While each creature is moaning, And sickening in thrall.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles