fother

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"You'll have the goodness to procure one for him on Tuesday But there ain't aits nor yet fother, nor nowt for bedding down.

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  1. A wagon-load; a cart-load. With him ther was a ploughman, was his brother, That hadde ilad of dong ful many a fother. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., l. 530.
  2. A load; weight; burden; mass. Many man weeneth to grieve other, And on his head falleth the fother. Richard Coer de Lion, l. 1731. Heore nether lippe is a foul fother. King Alisaunder, l. 6467.
  3. An old unit of weight for lead, lime, and some other substances; a two-horse cart-load. A fother of lead varies from 19 1/2 to 22 1/2 hundredweight, each hundredweight being usually 120 pounds avoirdupois. At Néwcastle in England a fother is a third of a chaldron; and in American lead-mines the word is sometimes used for a short ton.
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  1. Also written fodder, dial. fudder. from Middle English fother, fothur, rarely foder, from Anglo-Saxon fōther, fōthur; a load (of wood, fagots, gravel, etc.), a wagon-load, cart-load, = Old Saxon fōthar = Dutch voeder, voer, a wagon-load, cart-load, voeder, a wine-cask, = Low German foder, for = Old High German fuodar, Middle High German vuoder, G. fuder, a wagon-load, a certain measure for wine. The F. foudre, a tun, Swedish foder, a tun, fora, a wagon-load, are of Low German origin.
  2. Prob. from Icelandic fōdhra, line or fur (a garment), = Dan, fodre, fore = Swedish fodra, line or fur (cf. Dan, foring, lining, nautical ceiling, foot-waling), = German füttern, line, ease, from Icelandic fōdhr = Danish Swedish foder, a lining, case, Danish foer, lining, = Anglo-Saxon *fōder, fōdder (rare), a case (boga-fōdder, a quiver), = Old High German fuotar, Middle High German vuoter, German futter, a sheath, a case, = Gothic (Moesogothic) fōdr, a sheath: see further under forel and fur.
 

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