Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fother

/ˈfɑðɚ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fother
IPA: /ˈfɑðɚ/

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Alternative form of fodder, food for animals.

Countable; Uncountable

verb

To feed animals (with fother).

verb

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

Dated

Example Sentences

"Four fother of clod lime, and fifteen fothers of good manure, on each acre."
"20 fothers of additional thickness in clay were thrown in."
"Where the brass hez a' cum fra nebody can tell, / Some says yen thing and some says another - / But whe ever lent Grainger't aw knaw very well, / That they mun have at least had a fother."
"Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19½ hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times."
"He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother, / And provender, wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed."

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.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: fother, fóðr, *fōdrą

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈfɑðɚ/
British English: /ˈfɒðə/

Usage

Inflected Forms

fothers (plural) fothers (present, singular) fothering (participle, present) fothered (participle, past) fothered (past)

Synonyms

cartload load

Questions

How do you pronounce fother?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈfɑðɚ/.
What does fother mean?: A load, a wagonload, especially any various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
Where does fother come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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