different between hundredweight vs fother

English

Alternative forms

• cwt. (abbreviation)

Etymology

16th century, from hundred +? weight.

Noun

hundredweight (plural hundredweight or hundredweights)

1. (Canada, US) A measure of weight containing 100 avoirdupois pounds (45.5 kg).

   Synonyms: (historical) cental, (rare) centner, short hundredweight, (historical) quintal

2. (Britain) A measure of weight containing 8 stone or 112 avoirdupois pounds (51 kg).

   Synonyms: long hundredweight, imperial hundredweight

Usage notes

• The short hundredweight is commonly used in the US in the sale of livestock and some cereal grains and oilseeds, paper, and concrete additives and on some commodities in futures exchanges. Since increasing metrication in most English-speaking countries the long hundredweight is now less used.

• The older designation and measure of weight quintal (“hundredweight”) is not standardized; see the usage notes there for more information.

Descendants

• ? Bengali: *??????? (*hôndôrd)
  • Bengali: ????? (hôndôr)

See also

• bushel
• quintal

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English fother, fothir, from Old Norse fóðr (cognate to Old English f?dor), from Proto-Germanic *f?dr? (compare Dutch voer (“pasture, fodder”), German Futter (“feed”), Swedish foder). Doublet of fodder. More at food.

Noun

fother (countable and uncountable, plural fothers)

1. (obsolete) A wagonload.
2. (obsolete) A load of any sort.
3. (historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
   • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 168.

     Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19½ hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times.

4. (dialect) Alternative form of fodder, food for animals.
   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2

     He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother, / And provender, wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed.

Synonyms

• (unspecific amount): See cartload
• (specific amount): See load

Hyponyms

• (cartload): See load

Verb

fother (third-person singular simple present fothers, present participle fothering, simple past and past participle fothered)

1. (dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
2. (dated, nautical) To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).

Anagrams

• forthe, therof

Middle English

Alternative forms

• foður, fothir, fothyr, futher, fodyr, fooder, foþer, foþere, foðer, voðer, ffoder

Etymology

From Old Norse fóðr, from Proto-Germanic *f?dr?. Doublet of fodder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fo?ð?r/

Noun

fother (plural fothres)

1. wagonload (that which fits in a wagon)
2. A wildly inconsistent measure of weight primarily used for lead.
3. A great quantity, especially a load or of people.

Descendants

• English: fother
• Scots: fother

References

• “f??ther, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-18.