Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A load, a wagonload, especially any various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
Alternative form of fodder, food for animals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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verb
To feed animals (with fother).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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verb
To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: nautical, transport
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History
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.
