belwether
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]belwether
- Archaic form of bellwether (“the leading sheep of a flock”).
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, "Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubbard's Tale", line 294, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie:
- Thereto right well this Curdog...will serve, my sheepe to gather and drive to follow after their Belwether.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, "Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubbard's Tale", line 294, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie: