fother

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) a wagonload; a load of any sort.
  2. Noun.  an old English measure of lead or other metals, usually containing 19.5 hundredweight; a fodder.
  3. Noun.  (dialect) Food for animals.
  4. Verb.  (dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
  5. Verb.  (context, dated, nautical) To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).

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