Definition of "foddering" [foddering]

• The act of supplying fodder to cattle; feeding out fodder. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But then, nearly as quickly, the wider awareness of Malcolm X receded back into more urban milieus, a smattering of fan websites and period-specific academia, almost as if the increasingly digitized and short-attention-span-foddering zeitgeist collectively felt that it had somehow fulfilled yet another obligation to American minorities before moving on to other, 'safer' icons."
• "Q “What sayst thou of knowledge without understanding?” — “It is as the knowledge of a brute109 beast, which hath learnt the hours of its foddering and waking, but hath no reason.”"
• "Alas! what with foddering the cattle and tending the store, we are kept from school too long, and our education is sadly neglected."