Noun

Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

* 1598? , William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona ,Act I, scene I:

The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep.

A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 1/2 to 24 cwt (993 to 1222 kg).; a fother.

* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 168:

Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19 1/2 hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times.

(slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.

(figurative) Something which serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.

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According to the audio commentary on “Treehouse Of Horror III,” some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the “Treehouse Of Horror” franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof.

(cryptic crosswords) The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.

* 2009 , "Colin Blackburn", another 1-off cryptic clue.'' (on newsgroup ''rec.puzzles.crosswords )

In (part of) Shelley's poem Ozymandias is a "crumbling statue". If this is the explanation then the clue is not a reverse cryptic in the same was(SIC) as GEGS -> SCRAMBLED EGGS but a normal clue where where the fodder and anagrind are *both* indirect.

* 2012 , David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words

Insane Roman! (4)'' Look in ''-sane Roman'' and you'll uncover NERO, the ''insane Roman''. Dovetailing the signpost — ''in'' — with the hidden fodder — ''sane Roman — is inspired, an embedded style of signposting.

Noun

(en noun)

(feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.

(legal) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.

(legal) An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail).

(obsolete) Property; owndom; estate.

* Wordsworth, On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee .

* 1844 , , by (James Russell Lowell)

What doth the poor man's son inherit? / Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, / A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; / King of two hands, he does his part / In every useful toil and art; / A heritage, it seems to me, / A king might wish to hold in fee .

* 1915 , :

Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time.

(obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.

(obsolete) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.10:

For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee .

A monetary payment charged for professional services.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)

, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}