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To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack.
Origin: Cf. Fodder food, and G. Futtern, futtern, to cover within or without, to line. 75.
(01 Mar 1998)
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