FOTH'ER, n. [See Food.] A weight of lead containing eight pigs, and every pig twenty one stone and a half. But the fother is of different weights. With the plumbers in London it is nineteen hundred and a half, and at the mines, it is twenty two hundred and a half.FOTH'ER, v.t. [from stuffing. See the preceding word.] To endeavor to stop a leak in the bottom of a ship, while afloat, by letting down a sail by the corners, and putting chopped yarn, oakum, wool, cotton, &c. Between it and the ship's sides. These substances are sometimes sucked into the cracks and the leak stopped.
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