(n) any of several deciduous low-growing shrubs of the genus Fothergilla having showy brushlike spikes of white flowers in spring and fiery red and orange autumn color; grows from Alabama to the Allegheny Mountains, Syn.witch alder
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
n. [ OE. fother, foder, AS. fō&unr_;er a cartload; akin to G. fuder a cartload, a unit of measure, OHG. fuodar, D. voeder, and perh. to E. fathom, or cf. Skr. pātrā vessel, dish. Cf. Fodder a fother. ] 1. A wagonload; a load of any sort. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fothered p. pr. & vb. n. Fothering. ] [ Cf. Fodder food, and G. füttern, futtern, to cover within or without, to line. √75. ] To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]
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