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   Fother
   Fother is an old unit originally a cart-load (of hay, turf, wood, etc.), but through transference became a measurement for a quantity of lead. It was defined in different ways at different places and times, being about equal to a ton or somewhat more. The word is separately used for covering a leak...
   Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fother
   
   
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   Fother
   Ancient Measurement Terms: Weight. A cart-load. About 19½ hundredweight, dependent upon material.
   Also, six sacks where each sack is five fotmal.
   Volume. 40 bushels or 320 gallons.
   Found op http://www.hemyockcastle.co.uk/measure.htm
   
   
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   Fother
   Foth'er noun [ Middle English fother , foder , Anglo-Saxon fō...er a cartload; akin to German fuder a cartload, a unit of measure, Old High German fuodar , Dutch voeder , and perhaps to English fatho...
   Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/68
   
   
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   Fother
   Foth'er transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fothered ; present participle & verbal noun Fothering .] [ Confer Fodder food, and German füttern , futtern , t...
   Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/68
   
   
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   fother
   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. ... Origin: Cf. Fodder food, and G. Futtern, futtern, to cover within or without, to line. 75. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
   Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?fother
   
   
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   Fother
   • (n.) A wagonload; a load of any sort. • (v. t.) 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. • (n.) See Fodder, a unit of weight.
   Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/fother/
   
   
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   fother
   a traditional English unit of weight for lead. The fother, equal to 30 fotmals (next entry), was always a little smaller than a (long) ton. The original version seems to have been equivalent to 2160 avoirdupois pounds, and the version still being used in the nineteenth century was equal to 19.5 hund...
   Found op http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictF.html
   
   

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