FOTHER

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A wagonload; a load of any sort. [Obs.] Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer.

2.
n.

See Fodder, a unit of weight.

3.
v.

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.


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