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Definition: FOTHER

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A wagonload; a load of any sort.[Websters]
2. See Fodder, a unit of weight.[Websters].
Verb 1. 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.[Websters]
2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: fothering, fothered, fothers, fotherer, fotherers, fotheringly and fotheredly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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"Fother" is a common misspelling or typo for: Other, Father, Bother, Footer, frother.

Date "Fother" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1400. (references)

Specialty Definition: FOTHER

Domain Definition
Noah Webster 1: [Noun] A weight of lead containing eight pigs, and every pig twenty one stone and a half. But the fother is of different weights. With the plumbers in London it is nineteen hundred and a half, and at the mines, it is twenty two hundred and a half..
  2: [Verb] To endeavor to stop a leak in the bottom of a ship, while afloat, by letting down a sail by the corners, and putting chopped yarn, oakum, wool, cotton, &c. Between it and the ship's sides. These substances are sometimes sucked into the cracks and the leak stopped.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Mining Any of the various units of weight for lead; esp. a unit equal to 19.5hundredweight (885 kg). (references)
Wiktionary 1: [Noun] (obsolete): a wagonload; a load of any sort. (references)
  2: [Noun] 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. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Extended Definition: FOTHER

Fother

Fother is an old unit for measuring the quantity of lead in England. It was defined in different ways at different places and times, being about equal to a ton or somewhat more.

For further information see Sizes.com.

The word is separately used for covering a leak with a sail containing rope fibres, to prevent it sinking after being damaged.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Fother". Image Credit.
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