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Wether

noun

Male sheep especially a castrated one.

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"Wether" Quotes from Famous Books

... and a grand hall it is, but not easy to get into, for the crowd of monks and beggars on the stairs, hindering honest folks' business. And there sat the King on a high settle, with his pink face and white hair, looking as royal as a bell-wether new washed; and on either side of him, on the same settle, sat the old fox and the ...

— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley

... having a spell of turrible hot wether in Beulah. How is it with you? I never framed it up jest what kind of a job an American Counsul's was; but I guess he aint never het up with overwork! There was a piece in a Portland paper about a Counsul somewhere being fired because he set in his shirt-sleeves ...

— Mother Carey's Chickens • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... those hands of innocence—go, scare your sheep, together, The blundering, tripping tups that bleat behind the old bell-wether; And if they snuff the taint and break to find another pen, Tell them it's tar that glistens so, and daub them ...

— Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads • Rudyard Kipling

Words linked to "Wether" : Ovis, sheep, genus Ovis