| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Fother.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Seldom used past tense conjugation of the verb fother.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fother) | 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. | Top | |
Date "FOTHERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (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. | Top | ||
