grist, whipping boy, launching pad, staple, lightning rod, counterpoint, cannon fodder, focal point, punching bag, foreshadowing, punchline, yuks, sideshow, touchstone, springboard, stale, rehash, fluff, watercooler, spark, sustenance, rallying cry, kindling, humorists, tinder, hay, cause celebre, impetus, antidote, pabulum, pablum, parodies, distraction, fillip, metaphor, segue, commentary, backdrop, ammunition, blather, flapdoodle, scapegoat, counterbalance, primer, juicy, bashing, catnip, excuse, puns, gibes, satirists, manna, boon, subtext, potshots, gossip, inane, diatribes, titillation, tidbits, du jour, tonic, satire, salaciousness, witticisms, blowhard, launchpad, flashpoint, stoke, darlings, yawner, gasbag, bloviation, strategery, factoids, bogeyman, banter, respite, euphemism, mockable, feed, parodists, shorthand, gossipmonger, balm, lampoon, goldmine, credence, stumblebum, snarky, atwitter, pretext, succor, bookends, reminder, harrumphing, subplot, tattlers, caustic, poke fun, nourishment, ginning, food, forage, roughage, manure, fuel, pasturage, provender, fertilizer, foodstuff, aliment, firewood, fertiliser, nutrient, seasoning, nutriment, foodstuffs, dryland, harvested, sown, wheat, barley, maize, orchard, pollinated, ripening, unirrigated, weed, cereal, commerical, farinaceous, fertilized, grow, legume, oat, parched

alfalfa, broad bean, hay, horse bean, stover

., agropyron intermedium, aleppa grass, broad-bean, broad-bean plant, broad bean, chamaecytisus palmensis, cytesis proliferus, dalbergia sissoo, dolichos biflorus, elymus hispidus, english bean, ensilage, ensile, european bean, evergreen millet, field bean, flat pea, hay, haying, haying time, horse bean, horse grain, horse gram, intermediate wheatgrass, kaoliang, kudzu, kudzu vine, lathyrus sylvestris, lens culinaris, lentil, lentil plant, macrotyloma uniflorum, means grass, mustard tree, narrow-leaved everlasting pea, oat, panic grass, poor man's pulse, pueraria lobata, requisite, salvadora persica, screw bean, silage, sisham, sissoo, sissu, sorghum halapense, sorghum halepense, spring vetch, stover, straw, tagasaste, toothbrush tree, vicia faba, vicia sativa

feed, give, grub, provender