fother

/ˈfɒðə/

fother means A load, a wagonload, especially any various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.

fother is pronounced /ˈfɒðə/.

Etymology

From Middle English fother, fothir, from Old Norse fóðr (cognate to Old English fōdor), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (compare Dutch voer (“pasture, fodder”), German Futter (“feed”), Swedish foder). Doublet of fodder and foeder. More at food.

noun

A load, a wagonload, especially any various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.e.g.“Four fother of clod lime, and fifteen fothers of good manure, on each acre.” — 1774-75, Act 14 Geo. III in Brand, Newcastle (1789) I, page 652

verb

To feed animals (with fother).
To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).

Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).