wether
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- Rhymes: -ɛðə(r)
- Homophones: weather, whether (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
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wether (plural wethers)
- A castrated buck goat.
- A castrated ram.
- Archaic spelling of weather.
- 1849, Samuel Roffey Maitland, Essays on Subjects Connected with the Reformation in England[1], page 8:
- There was a great fyer in the chamber, the wether was colde, and I saw now and then a Bishop come out;
- 1849, Samuel Roffey Maitland, Essays on Subjects Connected with the Reformation in England[1], page 8:
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castrated buck goat
castrated ram
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[edit] Verb
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to wether (third-person singular simple present wethers, present participle wethering, simple past and past participle wethered)
- (transitive) To castrate a male sheep or goat.
