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fother (FAW-thr) or fodder (FAW-dr) - (U.K) n. a wagon-load; a unit of weight for lead and other metals.
The unit for lead is now standardized as 19.5 long-hundredweight (which is 120 pounds) = 2340 pounds = 1061.4 kilograms, but in the past varied (both how many hundredweight and which hundredweight to use). But honestly, I'm here for having a word meaning a wagonload. Can we extend this to mean truckload? Plus, I want to know the equivalent for a boatload.
---L.
The unit for lead is now standardized as 19.5 long-hundredweight (which is 120 pounds) = 2340 pounds = 1061.4 kilograms, but in the past varied (both how many hundredweight and which hundredweight to use). But honestly, I'm here for having a word meaning a wagonload. Can we extend this to mean truckload? Plus, I want to know the equivalent for a boatload.
---L.
