wethernoun [ C ]
/ˈweð.ər//ˈweð.ɚ/a male sheep that has been castrated (= had its sex organs removed):
He drove around the paddocks checking wethers, ewes and lambs.
More examples
- Crossbred wether lambs sold at £27.
- He got the job, looking at agricultural policy, because he was able to tell his interviewer that a teg, a hogget and a wether were all different types of sheep.
- The sheep here are divided into flocks of about three hundred breeding ewes, or four hundred wethers, in each.
- Emyr, as he saw me staggering with a big wether, asked me anxiously if I could manage it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Sheep & goats
- billy goat
- ewe
- goat
- kid
- lamb
- merino
- nanny goat
- ram
- sheep