Fother

Quick meaning: Fother is a noun meaning (dialect) Alternative form of fodder, food for animals.

Meaning

(dialect) Alternative form of fodder, food for animals.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

20 fothers of additional thickness in clay were thrown in.

Four fother of clod lime, and fifteen fothers of good manure, on each acre.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• fothers
• fothering
• fothered

Synonyms for fother

Depending on context, synonyms include cartload, load.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fodder, fooder, flother, fudder, forkload, fuckload.

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