VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / fother

Thesaurus: fother

A wagonload; a load of any sort.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

bottomdefinitioncrackdefinitiondrawingdefinitionforcedefinitionleakdefinitionpressuredefinitionsaildefinitionseadefinitionshipdefinitionstopdefinitionwaterdefinitionfodderdefinitionloaddefinitionseedefinitionsortdefinitionthrummeddefinitionunitdefinitionwagonloaddefinitionweightdefinitionchaucerdefinitiondungdefinitionfulldefinitionObsdefinitionfotheredfamilyfothergillafamilyfotheringfamilyfoster-sisterneighborfoster-sonneighbor

Definitions

  1. n. A wagonload; a load of any sort.
  2. n. See Fodder, a unit of weight.
  3. 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.
  4. 1. A wagonload; a load of any sort. [Obs.] Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer. 2. See Fodder, a unit of weight. 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.
  5. To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom athrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it intothe crack. Totten.
  6. n. A wagonload; a load of any sort. n. See Fodder, a unit of weight. 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.