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▪ I. fudder|ˈfʌdə(r)| Also 7–8 fooder. [ad. Ger. fuder (= fother) used in the same sense.] A tun (of wine).
1679–88Secr. Serv. Money Chas. & Jas. (Camden) 118 5 fooder of Rhenish wine, containing 37 ―, and 40ty gallons. a1767Sir Aldingar xli. in Child Ballads iii. lix. (1885) 46 Thou seemust as bigge as a ffooder. 1839Burckhardt German Dict., Fuder, fudder, tun (of wine). 1851Longfellow 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! [1884St. James's Gaz. 11 Aug. 5/2 Eight fuders of wine.] ▪ II. fudder Sc. var. of fouldre.
c1590J. Burel Pass. Pilgr. in J. Watson's Collect. (1706) ii. 24 To fle the flichts, of fudder. attrib.1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 219 Thunder-vollies..And fudder-flashes mixt wi' hail. ▪ III. fudder obs. form of fodder, fother. |