Meanings
wedder1
wedder2
plural wedders
- alternativeobsoleteregionalAlternative form of wether (“castrated buck goat or ram”).
They then retreated to an out-house, took a wedder from the fold, killed it, and supped off the carcass, for which (it is said) they offered payment to the proprietor.
1829, Rob Roy, Walter Scott, Introduction to the 1829 edition1 more example
1840, Patrick Leslie, Diary entry for 21 February, 1840, cited in Henry Stuart Russell, The Genesis of Queensland, Sydney: Turner & Henderson, 1888, Chapter 7, Our stock consisted of four thousand breeding ewes in lamb, one hundred ewe hoggets, one thousand wedder hoggets, one hundred rams, and five hundred wedders, three and four years old.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person who marries.
Origin
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