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Fother vs Lother - What's the difference?

fother | lother |

As a noun fother

is (obsolete) a wagonload; a load of any sort.

As a verb fother

is (dialect) to feed animals (with fother).

As an adjective lother is

(loth).

fother

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
  • To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).

    • Anagrams

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    lother

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (loth)

    • loth

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (UK, rare)
    • I was loth to return to the office without the Henderson file.

    Usage notes

    * Often confused in meaning and pronunciation with loathe. * The loath spelling is about four times more common in the UK and about fifty times more common in the US. * This spelling had more currency in the US in the 19th century, appearing in Webster's 1828 dictionary, but not the 1913 edition.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "loth")

    Derived terms

    * lothly * lothness

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