The act of supplying fodder to cattle; feeding out fodder.(noun)
The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)
Use "foddering" in a sentence
"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."