Usually means: Obsolete unit of weight measurement.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. fother: Merriam-Webster
  2. fother: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fother: Wordnik
  4. fother: Wiktionary
  5. Fother: Dictionary.com
  6. Fother: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. fother: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Fother: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. fother: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. fother: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Fother: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. fother: Dictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fother: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fother)

noun:  (historical) A load, a wagonload, especially any various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
verb:  (dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
verb:  (dated, nautical) To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).
noun:  (dialect) Alternative form of fodder, food for animals. [Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.]

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