Fodder vs Pasture - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between pasture and fodder

is that pasture is land on which cattle can be kept for feeding while fodder is food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

As verbs the difference between pasture and fodder

is that pasture is to move animals into a pasture to graze while fodder is to feed animals (with fodder).

fodder

English

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.

Synonyms

* (animal food) provender

Derived terms

* cannon fodder * fodder radish

Verb

(en verb)

(dialect) To feed animals (with fodder).

Anagrams

pasture

English

Noun

(en noun)

Land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.

Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.

* Bible, Psalms xxiii. 2

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures .

* Shakespeare

So graze as you find pasture .

(obsolete) Food, nourishment.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:

Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].

Derived terms

* pasture rose * pasture thistle

Verb

To move animals into a to graze.

To graze.

To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

The farmer pastures''' fifty oxen; the land will '''pasture forty cows.

Anagrams

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