bellweather

English

Noun

bellweather

1. Misspelling of bellwether.
   • 1919, Max Brand, Trailin'!:

     They moved in, the rest trailing behind like sheep after a bellweather

   • 1985, Senator Danforth, Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act: hearings before Subcommittee on International Trade, United States. Ninety-ninth Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, page 85:

     There is no doubt that this is a bellweather - what happens in textiles and apparel, as the Senators who testified made very clear, is a bellweather for what is going to happen in other industries.

   • 2006 December 14, “Hollywood Babel-on: the Golden Globes go leftfield”, in The Guardian‎^[1], retrieved 2020-12-07:

     Once the joke of the movie industry, the Golden Globes are now a bellweather for the Oscars - and a bit more adventurous too.

   • 2015, John A. Stanturf, Restoration of Boreal and Temperate Forests, page 495:

     Natural disturbances to forests around the world are on the rise, constituting a bellweather of global change associated with a warming climate

   • 2015, Birgitta Evengård, Joan Nymand Larsen, Øyvind Paasche, The New Arctic, page 298:

     As the Arctic has been called a bellweather for climate change, where amplitudes are higher and impacts greater […] .