fother
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Is fother a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (historical) A load, a wagonload, especially any various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.Examples: "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."countablehistoricaluncountable
2. (dialect) Alternative form of fodder, food for animals.Examples: "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."alt-ofalternativecountabledialectaluncountable
verb (English)
1. (dialect) To feed animals (with fother).dialectal
2. (dated, nautical) To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).dated
Definition source: Wiktionary