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- noun Plural form of
wether .
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Examples
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Castrated bucks are called wethers and are sold for meat while bucks or rams are used for breeding.
Docking... Gumbo Lily 2010
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Ewes sometimes receive an ear notch at docking to identify them quickly from the wethers when sorted down a sorting alley.
Docking... Gumbo Lily 2010
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May 18, 2009 at 1:05 am we canz trade wethers? it too dry and hot here. not enuf sno on da hills to melty for da reserv, rese, pond things fur collecting waters. we be in drowt fur abowt tree yeers nao. iz in cali fern knee-a inna bay areeea.
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An normally Pookie, da biggen, wuld bii owtsyde enjoyin da kool wethers!
Bugsy’s philosophy - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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We then sorted the ewe lambs from the wether lambs male sheep made into "steers" and marked the wethers with a dob of paint so they'll be easier to distinguish when sorting down a sheep alley when we're ready to sell them.
Archive 2008-08-01 Gumbo Lily 2008
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We cannot, as the footman says in the play, recollect the exact nature of the lie which the bell wethers told the flock, but no task is so easy as that of imposing upon a multitude whose eager prejudices have more than half done the business ere the impostor has spoken a word.
Quentin Durward 2008
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Freddy 4-H'er: Little kid who raises and shows livestockWrangler Butt: A Freddy in tightfitting jeansJuicers: Dairy cattlePig Patrol: Officials who weigh swine before a competition to determine weight classWether report: Vital stats like weight and breed on lambs ( "" wethers '') reported to judges and the mediaConcrete cowboy: City slickers in boots and cowboy hats who turn out to watch
At The Fair 2008
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We then sorted the ewe lambs from the wether lambs male sheep made into "steers" and marked the wethers with a dob of paint so they'll be easier to distinguish when sorting down a sheep alley when we're ready to sell them.
Remembering Tasha Tudor, part II Gumbo Lily 2008
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Lambs and gimmers and wethers and ewes what do you want with political views?
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At first your wethers will run with your ewes, and you will only want one shepherd; but as soon as the mob gets up to two or three thousand the wethers should be kept separate; you will then want another shepherd.
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