a. [f. FODDER sb. + -LESS.] Without fodder.
1852. Tait’s Mag., XIX. 760. Without any knowledge of the business he has undertaken, he sets to work, and in the course of a very few years he melts his bags of dollars into brick walls, stony roads, unfinished mills, fodderless cattle, &c. &c., until his wife and daughters are reduced to calico dresses, patched shoes, and sugarless tea.
