▪ I. fudder
(ˈfʌdə(r))
Also 7–8 fooder.
[ad. Ger. fuder (= fother) used in the same sense.]
A tun (of wine).
| 1679–88 Secr. Serv. Money Chas. & Jas. (Camden) 118 5 fooder of Rhenish wine, containing 37 ―, and 40{supt}{supy} gallons. a 1767 Sir Aldingar xli. in Child Ballads iii. lix. (1885) 46 Thou seemust as bigge as a ffooder. 1839 Burckhardt German Dict., Fuder, fudder, tun (of wine). 1851 Longfellow Gold. Leg. iv. Convent of Hirschau 100 A benison rest on the Bishop who sends Such a fudder of wine as this to his friends! [1884 St. James's Gaz. 11 Aug. 5/2 Eight fuders of wine.] |
▪ II. fudder
Sc. var. of fouldre.
| c 1590 J. Burel Pass. Pilgr. in J. Watson's Collect. (1706) ii. 24 To fle the flichts, of fudder. |
| attrib. 1819 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 219 Thunder-vollies..And fudder-flashes mixt wi' hail. |
▪ III. fudder
obs. form of fodder, fother.