shedern.
/ˈʃiːdə/ dialect.
A female sheep; spec. a lamb from eight or nine months old to her first shearing.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > lamb > female
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1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 211 For, had his wesand bene a little widder, He would haue deuoured both hidder and shidder [Gloss He and she. Male and Female].
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 169 As appeares by hether, and shether, i. male, and female.
1633 J. Fisher Fuimus Troes iii. ix. sig. Gi, (Chorus) Hidder, eke and shidder.
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 325 They are forced to sell their heeders, and joist their sheeders in the spring.
1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 341 The ‘heder’ hogs being grazed on the seeds, and the ‘sheders’ on grass.
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