fother

Meanings

1. A load, a wagonload, especially any various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
2. Alternative form of fodder, food for animals.

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 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.