Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
rudder . - noun Cattle-dung; manure.
- noun A bovine animal; a cow, or an animal of the cow kind.
- noun [In this passage rother's is an emendation of brother's, which is given in most editions.]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rudder.
- noun a nail with a very full head, used for fastening the rudder irons of ships; -- so called by shipwrights.
- adjective (Zoöl.), obsolete, obsolete Bovine.
- adjective [Obs.] cattle of the bovine genus; black cattle.
- adjective the dung of rother beasts.
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- noun a horned animal, especially an
ox - noun A
rudder .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Big B rother needs love too. by John Hanks on Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 at 11: 32: 41 AM
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Spihsnoitale, rother ister elationships and rother
Think Progress » Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal 2005
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Walk to Bretton Hall team9 - sons of rother vs shout (Tears for Fears vs Death in Vegas)
Radio Clash 37: Sheffield Sheepseeing Cuntry Tour ft DJNoNo 2005
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Walk to Bretton Hall team9 - sons of rother vs shout (Tears for Fears vs Death in Vegas)
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I am to go to Detroit next Saturday but if I can hear from you I would rother take your advise.
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"And our rother dear young friends," she was beginning, when suddenly she put her hands up to her face and made a curious spluttering noise, at sound of which the sisters started in dismay.
A Houseful of Girls George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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I ask and command, whosoever may have my land, that he every year give to the domestics at Folkestone fifty measures of malt, and six measures of meal, and three weys [_heavy weights_] of bacon and cheese, and four hundred loaves, and one rother [_ox_], and six sheep ....
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873
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And the old man begins to question me out whether I warn't a run-away, and I rother denied it in the first place; and he says,
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Page 195 ring for church, and weighed anchor for the West Indies, and then I see the difference atwixt the sailor's Sunday and a Yorker's, and it made me feel kind's serious and rother bad.
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Well, come the sixth day I guess, at evenin 'arter I'd done all my work, and was a settin' on the railin 'rother carelessly, the boom jibed and struck me on the top of my head, and the first I knew I was pitched head first into the brine.
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