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fother

noun
/ˈfɒðə/UK/ˈfɑðɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English fother, fothir, from Old Norse fóðr (cognate to Old English fōdor), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (compare Dutch voer (“pasture, fodder”), German Futter (“feed”), Swedish foder). Doublet of fodder and foeder. More at food.

  1. derived from *fōdrą✻
  2. derived from fóðr
  3. inherited from fother

Definitions

  1. A load, a wagonload, especially any various English units of weight or volume based upon…

    A load, a wagonload, especially any various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.

    • Four fother of clod lime, and fifteen fothers of good manure, on each acre.
    • 20 fothers of additional thickness in clay were thrown in.
    • Where the brass hez a' cum fra nebody can tell, / Some says yen thing and some says another - / But whe ever lent Grainger't aw knaw very well, / That they mun have at least had a fother.

  2. Alternative form of fodder, food for animals.

    • He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother, / And provender, wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed.

  3. To feed animals (with fother).

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).

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