wether sheep
= wether 1.
| 13.. St. Peter & Paul 244 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 79 Þan Nero gart his heuede of strike, For þe wedir schepe was him like. 1504 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 449 For tedderis to tua wedder scheip..xxj d. 1563 T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 31 If that you take the maw of a weather sheepe new killed. 1583 in Phillipps Wills (c 1830) 273, I bequeath unto my Sonne..six wether shepe. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts 638 Of the Weather-sheepe... Al Nations do distinguish him from the ram, because of one property or defect in him, for that hee is not fit for generation. 1669 Sturmy Mariner's Mag., Penalties 5 Such Weather-sheep..as are..for the Ships use. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 284 Fatting of Oxen, or Wether Sheep. 1834 Brit. Husb. I. 506 The next year it carried upwards of forty wether sheep. |