Usually means: Castrated male sheep or goat.
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  1. wether: Merriam-Webster
  2. wether: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wether: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wether: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wether: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wether, wether: Wordnik
  7. wether: Wiktionary
  8. wether: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. wether: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. wether: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. wether: Dictionary.com
  12. wether: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Wether (disambiguation), Wether: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Wether: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. wether: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. wether: Rhymezone
  17. Wether: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. wether: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. wether: FreeDictionary.org
  20. wether: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. wether: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. wether: Mnemonic Dictionary

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  1. Wether: Legal dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

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  1. wether: Encyclopedia

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  1. wether: Medical dictionary

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  1. wether: A Word A Day

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  1. wether: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wether)

▸ noun:  A castrated goat.
▸ noun:  A castrated ram.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To castrate a male sheep or goat.
▸ noun:  Archaic spelling of weather. [The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.]

Similar:
wedder, goatherder, gelding, Judas goat, goatherd, buckling, goat, buck, capreol, billy, more...

Opposite:
whether

Types:
ram, buck, stag, bull, more...

Phrases:
bell wether, more...

Adjectives:
fat, old, cold, best, fine, foule, big, meri, fayre, great, primest


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Similar:
wedder, goatherder, gelding, Judas goat, goatherd, buckling, goat, buck, capreol, billy, more...

Opposite:
whether

Types:
ram, buck, stag, bull, more...

Phrases:
bell wether, more...

Adjectives:
fat, old, cold, best, fine, foule, big, meri, fayre, great, primest



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