fother

Etymology
From, , from (cognate to 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). and. More at.

Noun

 * 1)  A load, a wagonload, especially any various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
 * 2) * 1774-75, Act 14 Geo. III in Brand, Newcastle (1789) I, page 652:
 * Four fother of clod lime, and fifteen fothers of good manure, on each acre.
 * , food for animals.
 * , food for animals.
 * , food for animals.
 * , food for animals.

Synonyms

 * see cartload, load

Hyponyms

 * see load

Verb

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

Etymology
From, from. .

Noun

 * 1) wagonload that which fits in a wagon
 * 2) a wildly inconsistent measure of weight primarily used for lead.
 * 3) a great quantity, especially a load or of people.