noun: (historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
verb: (dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
verb: (dated, nautical) To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).
noun: (dialect) Alternative form of fodder, food for animals. [Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.]