fure
/fjʊɹ/obsolete
fure is a verb meaning “To lead” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-R-E, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fure mean?
verb
- 1
ScotlandobsoleteTo lead.
So far as his labor and his wisdom fures.
- 2
ScotlandobsoleteTo carry, bear, convey, transport.
No goods should be fured upon the over-loft of the ships.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fure?
- /fjʊɹ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fure.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fure
- fures present, singular, he/she/it
- furing participle, present
- fured participle, past
- fur
- fuir
- four
- fwir
- fuyr
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fure?
Fure appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fure come from?
From Danish føre, from Proto-Germanic *fōrijaną. Cognate with Dutch voeren (“to lead”), Low German fören (“to lead”), German führen (“to lead”), Luxembourgish féieren (“to lead”), Icelandic færa (“to move, carry, convey”), Faroese føra (“to lead, carry”), Swedish föra (“to lead, guide, steer, direct”), Danish føre (“to lead”), Norwegian Bokmål føre (“to lead”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).