Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A castrated ram.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A simplified spelling of weather.
- n. A castrated ram.
Wiktionary
- n. A castrated buck goat.
- n. A castrated ram.
- n. Archaic spelling of weather.
- v. transitive To castrate a male sheep or goat.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A castrated ram.
WordNet 3.0
- n. male sheep especially a castrated one
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English; see wet-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Do you really not believe that you have something vested in wether or not a top official in the White House outed an operative who may have been able to obtain better information regarding the Nuclear issues in Iran?”
Think Progress » Matthews on Rove Indictment: ‘It Could Be Today’
“A wether is a castrated goat or sheep; it's probably related to a Latin word for "calf.”
“Indeed they are not, if imrinted upon a human at birth or bonded to a human as a kid a socialized goat is a wonderful pet- especially a neutered male called a wether…these are the “throw away” variety of goats used for weed eating ditches- and usually die from a dog attack aka dog treat on a rope.”
The Fantastical Capybara: An Interview with Melanie Typaldos About Her Caplin Rous
“The wether is a sort of sheep with worms in its head.”
“Note for townies - A wether is a castrated male sheep, over one year old.”
“Yea and though they lie in the field two moneths, at such time as it shall freese more then a yard thicke, the common souldier hath neither tent nor any thing else ouer his head: the most defence they haue against the wether is a felte, which is set against the winde and weather, and when Snowe commeth hee doth cast it off, and maketh him a fire, and laieth him down thereby.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“All subsequently cut fleeces are known as wether wool and possess relatively somewhat less value than the first clip.”
“One story has it that English shepherds used to employ a castrated ram - also know as a wether - to help manage the flock.”
“Yea and though they lie in the field two moneths, at such time as it shall freese more then a yard thicke, the common souldier hath neither tent nor any thing else ouer his head: the most defence they haue against the wether is a felte, which is set against the winde and weather, and when”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
“As the more agrarian readers will obviously know, a wether is a castrated sheep.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wether’.
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sheep and goats
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
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Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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the big list
all my wordies
hemiversary, taswegian, beausage, chantepleure, skycandy, hacksilver, shanger, drama pawn, hostage-bride, serpopard, fanwank, lapin and 90 more...
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My Treasures
Well everyone's lists are favourites or pets or useful terms, no? These are mine.
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Resource
katabatic, clerestory, haslet, alpenglow, purl, scumble, jessant, spavined, wayworn, creach, dottle, solferino and 165 more...
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tez's Words
tain, curlicue, eidolon, exoteric, puissant, ragamuffin, insouciant, yarrow, taciturn, mundane, vomitorium, tenebre and 140 more...
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Field Mass
for the same
fanon, armet, wether, filibuster, shadoof, shabrack, mai, sainfoin, sand-crack, panoply, guerdon, flunky and 233 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
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Words of the Day
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Much loved words
ungent, ineffable, curmudgeon, wether, bilk, nasaaq, quince, medlar, anencephalic, riddling grate, fetlock, synallagmatic and 24 more...
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trombrarian's Words
buttress, yawp, ajar, tawdry, tornadic, tacitly, murfle, winkapeep, eager, radial, mnemonic, eccentric and 47 more...
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Animals
porcine, phocine, leporine, hircine, ursine, zoonic, volucrine, vermicular, taurine, strigine, soricine, ranine and 20 more...
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baby and neutered animal names
joey, cygnet, calf, kid, pup, cub, fledgling, duckling, fry, gosling, nymph, chick and 62 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu Cf. dinmont. Aug 24, 2010
bilby See WordNet definition above. Nov 17, 2008
BrainyBabe A castrated male sheep. Female mammals can also have their reproductive potential eliminated.
Most famously, this is the bellwether, the lead animal or an outlier, who creates just enough noise for the shepherd to keep track of where the whole flock is. Nov 17, 2008
sumit A castrated sheep. Jan 3, 2007