foulder

English

Etymology

Middle English fouldre (“lightning”), from Old French foudre also fouldre (modern French foudre), from Latin fulgur. See fulgor.

Verb

foulder (third-person singular simple present foulders, present participle fouldering, simple past and past participle fouldered)

  1. (obsolete) To flash like lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.
    • Edmund Spenser
      flames of fouldering 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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