wedder

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
11
Letters
6

Definition of wedder

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A person who marries.
    “The wedder of the heiress! is his lot all bliss when he has made the grand coup, and married for money after a long career of debts, difiiculties, and dishonoured bills? I think not; […]”
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noun

  1. A person who marries.
    “The wedder of the heiress! is his lot all bliss when he has made the grand coup, and married for money after a long career of debts, difiiculties, and dishonoured bills? I think not; […]”
  2. (alt-of, alternative, obsolete, regional)Alternative 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.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

From wed + -er.

Hooks

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