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Definition: Fothering
Fother
\Foth"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Fothered; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Fothering.] [Cf.
Fodder food, and G. f["u]ttern,
futtern, to cover within or without, to line. [root]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.
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