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foulder

/ˈfoʊldə(ɹ)/

foulder verb: to flash like lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.

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.
    • flames of fouldring heat1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 20

Forms of foulder

third-person singular presentfoulders
present participlefouldering
past participlefouldered
pastfouldered
alternative form (archaic)fouldre

Origin of foulder

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

Words formed from foulder

Questions about foulder

What does foulder mean?
Foulder means to flash like lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.
What part of speech is foulder?
Foulder is a verb.
How do you pronounce foulder?
Foulder is pronounced /ˈfoʊldə(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of foulder?
The past tense of foulder is fouldered.

Words near foulder in the dictionary

  1. foulard
  2. foulards
  3. foulbrood
  4. foulbroods
  5. Foulby
  6. foulder
  7. fouldered
  8. fouldering
  9. foulders
  10. Foulds
  11. foule

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