Lexicographical Neighbors of Fothering
Literary usage of Fothering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal and Review edited by Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt, John Charles Cox, John Romilly Allen (1894)
"... moreover) as " a sheep- house and fothering-stede on the common," "one ...
or "fothering-stedes," and so far from being uncommon were of as customary ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"... and fothering time; " " We get our teas when Will comes in from fothering them."
FOUL, adj.—Used in such phrases as " When it ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1793)
"... fothering, which again encouraged our hopes. At noon the water was 27
inches,the (hip's head about W. the wind blowing very hard. ..."
4. An Account of the Arctic Regions with a History and Description of the by William Scoresby (1820)
"I proposed to attempt to pull the keel entirely away, that the plan of fothering
might be adopted with a better prospect of success. ..."
5. History of New South Wales from the Records by George Burnett Barton (1894)
"Another sail was then prepared for a second fothering, which again encouraged
... Between one and three in the afternoon, the second fothering was got under ..."
6. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe). by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"... We get our teas when Will comes in from fothering them." X FOUL, adj.—Used in
such phrases as " When it ruins in on the bed it seems foul ; " " It were ..."
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