fother UK /ˈfɒðə/US /ˈfɑðɚ/verb 2noun 1forms 3 verb2 •(old-fashioned) To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull). •(dialect) To feed animals (with fother). noun1 •(historical) A load, a wagonload, especially any various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.Four fother of clod lime, and fifteen fothers of good manure, on each acre. — 1774 formsfothered · fothering · fothers
