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Definition of wether in English: wethernoun ˈwɛðəˈwɛðər A castrated ram. Example sentencesExamples - They brought with them 350 ewes, 45 wethers, ten bullocks, six heifers, one bull, four horses, and a number of goats and some poultry.
- The system encouraged a change from wethers to ewes.
- Most adult sheep were wethers (castrated rams) raised mainly for wool.
- Twenty-five skeletally mature crossbred merino wethers were used with the approval of our local Animal Care and Ethics Committee.
- In Trial 3, the effects of corn smut on the in vivo digestibility of high corn silage diets were determined with mature Hampshire-cross wethers.
- A cold southerly rain storm caught the newly shorn wethers and four hundred died because the cold congealed the fat around their kidneys.
Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch weer and German Widder. Rhymes altogether, feather, heather, leather, nether, tether, together, weather, whether Definition of wether in US English: wethernounˈwɛðərˈweT͟Hər A castrated ram. Example sentencesExamples - The system encouraged a change from wethers to ewes.
- Most adult sheep were wethers (castrated rams) raised mainly for wool.
- They brought with them 350 ewes, 45 wethers, ten bullocks, six heifers, one bull, four horses, and a number of goats and some poultry.
- Twenty-five skeletally mature crossbred merino wethers were used with the approval of our local Animal Care and Ethics Committee.
- In Trial 3, the effects of corn smut on the in vivo digestibility of high corn silage diets were determined with mature Hampshire-cross wethers.
- A cold southerly rain storm caught the newly shorn wethers and four hundred died because the cold congealed the fat around their kidneys.
Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch weer and German Widder. |