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
Derived terms
References
- “foulder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- OED2
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