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SOWPODS (Collins Scrabble Words)
"Fother" Definition
noun
A wagonload; a load of any sort.
Source: Wiktionary
An old english measure of lead or other metals, usually containing 19.5 hundredweight; a fodder.
Source: Wiktionary
Food for animals.
Source: Wiktionary
See fodder, a unit of weight.
A wagon-load; a cart-load.
Source: Century Dictionary
verb
To feed animals (with fother).
Source: Wiktionary
To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).
Source: Wiktionary
verb-transitive
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.
To place a sail or tarpaulin over, as a leak in a ship's hull, for the purpose of keeping the water out. in fathering a leak, rope-yarns, oakum, etc., are thickly stitched on the sail or tarpaulin.
Source: Century Dictionary
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