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† rother-beast Obs. exc. arch.
= rother 1.
α1483in Somerset Wills (1901) 254 Also two oxen..and all my rother bestes. 1533in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 61 Every child of my son Thos. a Rother beste. 1567Golding Ovid's Met. vii. 89 b, The cruell Beare to fall Upon the herdes of Rother beastes had now no lust at all. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 78 You shall see Heards of Rother Beasts and Horses, and Flocks of Sheepe. c1640J. Smyth Hund. Berkeley (1885) 19 Land's which suffice for the breedinge of an horse beast or Rother beast. 1670Blount Glossogr. (ed. 3), Rother-beasts (a word used both in our old Statutes, and still in the North of England). 1836in A. R. Stedman Marlborough & Upper Kennet Country (1960) xxvii. 270 No burgess shall keep on the common more than two rother beasts{ddd}that is to say, kine or bullocks. 1933Catholic Bull. Mar. 215 Let us read over again the overwhelmingly impressive reasonings of this great among the greatest pontiffs, then contrast the fruits of imperial connection, of Masonry, of that trade in pasturing and larding the sides of rother-beasts, to champion which the Knight of the Ranchers..has couched his lance.
β1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 25 The mary of Hertes, Roes, or rudder beastes. 1596Harington Metam. Ajax Prol. A viij, The ruther beastes that eate too greedily hereof wil swell til they burst. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xiv. (1660) 163 The Bull is the ringleader amongst ruther beasts. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 244 The Ruther Beasts with distended Bags grazing in the Meadows. |