fother (countable and uncountable, plural fothers)
(obsolete) A wagonload.
(obsolete) A load of any sort.
(historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
• (unspecific amount): See cartload
• (specific amount): See load
• (cartload): See load
fother (third-person singular simple present fothers, present participle fothering, simple past and past participle fothered)
(dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
(dated, nautical) To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).
• forthe, therof
Source: Wiktionary
Foth"er, n. Etym: [OE. fother, foder, AS. fo a cartload; akin to G. fuder a cartload, a unit of measure, OHG. fuodar, D. voeder, and perh. to E. fathom, or cf. Skr. patra vessel, dish. Cf. Fodder a fother.]
1. A wagonload; a load of any sort. [Obs.] Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer.
2. See Fodder, a unit of weight.
Foth"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fothered; p. pr. & vb. n. Fothering.] Etym: [Cf. Fodder food, and G. füttern, futtern, to cover within or without, to line. *75.]
Definition: To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack. Totten.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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