Definition of Fothir
Foth"er (?), n. [OE. fother,
foder, AS. fō&?;er a cartload; akin to G.
fuder a cartload, a unit of measure, OHG. fuodar, D.
voeder, and perh. to E. fathom, or cf. Skr.
pātrā 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.] [Cf. Fodder food, and G.
füttern, futtern, to cover within or without, to
line. √75.] 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (obsolete): a wagonload; a load of any sort.
- an old English measure of lead or other metals, usually containing 19.5 hundredweight; a fodder.
Quotations
*1866: Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19 1/2 hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times. —James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 168.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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