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† ˈfotmal Obs. See also formell. [app. a use of OE. fótmǽl, foot measure (see foot n. and meal); the L. pes seems to have been used in the same sense. The reason for the name is obscure.] A weight used for lead, app. about 70 lbs., the thirtieth part of a fother or load.? a 1300 Assisa de Ponderibus...
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Fotmal
The fotmal (, "foot-measure"; ), also known as the foot (), formel, fontinel, and fotmell, was an English unit of variable weight particularly used in According to Kiernan, in 16th-century Derbyshire, the fotmal was divided into "boles" and made up of a fother, meaning it was considered to be 84 avoirdupois
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Foot (disambiguation)
now usually 0.3048 m or 12 inches
Foot of a perpendicular, in geometry, a point where perpendicular lines intersect
Foot, an alternative name for the fotmal
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formell
† formell Obs. [ad. Anglo-Lat. formella (substituted, perh. by mistake, for fotmal in one version of the Assisa de Ponderibus), a dim. of forma form, in the sense of ‘mould’; cf. formella a cheese (Du Cange).] = fotmal.1674 S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 80 Lead..By the Ordinance abovesaid, 1 Load 30 Formel...
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fother
▪ I. fother, n. (ˈfɒðə(r)) Forms: 1 fóðer, 3–4 south. voðer, 4–6 fother, -yr, futher, -ir, (6 fouther, fowther), 5–7 fuder, -yr, fudder, Sc. -ir, 5–9 fodder, (5–6 foder, -yr, 6 fodar, 7 fooder), 6–7 Sc. fidder, 4– fother. [OE. fóðer str. neut. = OS. fôthar (MDu. voeder, Du. voer), OHG. fuodar (MHG. ...
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