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Wether

/ˈwɛðə/

A castrated buck goat.

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noun
  1. 1

    A castrated buck goat.

  2. 2

    A castrated ram.

verb
  1. 1

    To castrate a male sheep or goat.

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muttonnounThe meat of sheep used as food.
fouleObsolete form of foul. [Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.]
merinounA language of Cameroon.
lambsnounA young sheep.
weddernounA person who marries.
goatherdernounA herder of goats.
geldingnounA castrated male horse.
judas goatnounA goat trained to lead other goats (or sheep) to a place of slaughter.
goatherdnounA person who herds, tends goats.
bucklingnounThe action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing).
goatnounAny hoofed mammal of the genus Capra.
geldnoun(Northern England) A payment.
bucknounA male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.
capreolnoun(obsolete) A high leap.
billynounA billy goat.
steerverb(intransitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
goat rodeonoun(Canada, US, slang) A chaotic, unmanageable situation.
entire(sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.
shepherdnoun(countable) A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
shear hognounA sheep after its first shearing.

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