Fotherとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fother (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 fothers)

1. (obsolete) A wagonload.
2. (obsolete) A load of any sort.
3. (historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
   • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 168:

     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.

4. (dialect) Alternative form of fodder, food for animals.
   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:

     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.

同意語

• (unspecific amount): See cartload
• (specific amount): See load

下位語

• (cartload): See load

動詞

fother (三人称単数 現在形 fothers, 現在分詞 fothering, 過去形および過去分詞形 fothered)

1. (dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
2. (dated, nautical) To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).

アナグラム

• forthe, therof