Fother vs Flother - What's the difference?
fother | flother |
(obsolete) a wagonload; a load of any sort.
an old English measure of lead or other metals, usually containing 19.5 hundredweight; a fodder.
*1866 : 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. —James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 168.
(dialect) Food for animals.
* 1663 ,
*: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.
(unit of weight)
(dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).
