Fother

/ˈfɒðə/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (historical) A load, a wagonload, especially any various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
2. (dialect) Alternative form of fodder, food for animals.
3. (dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
4. (dated, nautical) To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).

Example Sentences

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.

Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19½ hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times.

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.

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• fothers
• fothering
• fothered

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