belwether

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A form of bellwether — The leading sheep of a flock, having a bell hung round its neck.

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Meanings

noun
  1. archaicArchaic form of bellwether (“the leading sheep of a flock”).

    Thereto right well this Curdog...will serve, my sheepe to gather and drive to follow after their Belwether.

    1591, Edmund Spenser, "Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubbard's Tale", line 294, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie
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