Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An obsolete or dialectal form of rudder.
- n. A bovine animal; a cow, or an animal of the cow kind.
- n. [In this passage rother's is an emendation of brother's, which is given in most editions.]
- n. Cattle-dung; manure.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.), obsolete, obsolete Bovine.
- n. A rudder.
Etymologies
- Old English. See rudder. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“Walk to Bretton Hall team9 - sons of rother vs shout (Tears for Fears vs Death in Vegas)”
“Spihsnoitale, rother ister elationships and rother”
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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.”
“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.”
“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 ....”
“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,”
“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.”
“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.”
“Many of you will never step into a place like the VFW o rother Veteran organizations and you want to ban smoking there??”
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The Other
Anything with to do with the word "other," or any sort of otherness (including words with the letters o-t-h-e-r, in that order, in their definitions).
other, Constitutive Other, The Other, Other, The Others, otherwise, othering, another, otherworldly, other-worldly, otherways, otherness and 35 more...
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English Counties, Districts, Boroughs
northumberland, tyne and wear, newcastle upon tyne, gateshead, north tyneside, south tyneside, sunderland, cumbria, carlisle, allerdale, eden, copeland and 348 more...
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