foulder
English
Alternative forms
- fouldre (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English fouldre (“lightning”), from Old French foudre also fouldre (modern French foudre), from Latin fulgur. See fulgor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfoʊldə(ɹ)/
Verb
foulder (third-person singular simple present foulders, present participle fouldering, simple past and past participle fouldered)
- (obsolete) To flash like lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 20:
- flames of fouldring heat
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “foulder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Derived terms
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