Dictionary entry

Fother (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Foth″er, 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.