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)

1. (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

• enfouldered

References

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

Anagrams

• Delfour, fuel rod, floured, deflour