Look up: fother

1. 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 on http://www.hemyockcastle.co.uk/measure.h
   
   
2. 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 on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/68
   
   
3. Fother
   Foth'er transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fothered ; present participle & verbal noun Fothering .] [ Confer Fodder food, and German füttern , futtern , t...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/68
   
   
4. 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 on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona
   
   
5. 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.
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6. 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 hundredweight or 2184 pounds.
   Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictF.
   
   
7. 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 lea...
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fother