(v. t.) To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack.
Example Sentences:
Pother
Definition:
(n.) Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother.
(v. i.) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
(v. t.) To harass and perplex; to worry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bawbag, which was submitted for the dictionary by the user tooz last month, was one of several new entries to the open dictionary, along with the “informal verb” to pother, defined as “to make an unnecessary fuss”, and the expression “curiouser and curiouser”.
(2) Charlotte, standing calm and still in the middle of all the flap and pother – the Bennets should award her a special stipend just for advising Elizabeth not to be so bloody rude to Darcy every time she speaks to him (I paraphrase) – and gazing with a cool, appraising eye on her own and everyone else's best chance of the greatest happiness while everyone else's vision is either blinkered with pride, blurred by prejudice or occluded by simple stupidity (Lydia!