† Fooder

Obs. [a. Ger. fuder see FOTHER.] A measure of wine (see quot. 1679); a cask holding this quantity.

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1679–88. Secr. Serv. Money Chas. & Jas. (Camden), 118. 5 fooder of Rhenish wine, containing 37 ——, and 40^ty gallons.

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a. 1767. Sir Aldingar, xli., in Child, Ballads, III. lix. (1885), 46.

	Hee sayd, Come hither, Sir Aldingar;
	Thou seemust as bigge as a ffooder;
	I trust to God, ere I haue done with thee,
	God will send to vs [an] auger.

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