Fother Definition
noun
An old English measure of lead or other metals, usually containing 19.5 hundredweight; a fodder.
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(dialect) Food for animals.
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Alternative form of fodder (unit of weight)
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verb
(dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
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(dated, nautical) To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).
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Other Word Forms of Fother
Noun
Singular:
fother
Plural:
fothersOrigin of Fother
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From Old Norse fóðr, but see Old English fōdor, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (compare Dutch voer (“pasture, fodder”), German Futter (“feed”), Swedish foder), from fōda (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *pat- 'to feed'. More at food.
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