Definitions for wether

wether weth·er

Spelling: [weth -er]
IPA: /ˈwɛð ər/

Wether is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in wether (eehrtw).

Definitions for wether

noun

  1. a castrated male sheep.
  2. Also called wether wool. wool from previously shorn sheep.

Origin of wether

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old Saxon withar, Old High German widar, Old Norse vethr, Gothic withrus

Examples for wether

I aint allowed to tell you wether were goin to the front from here or not.

Some of the lands will carry an ox and a wether per acre; rents, 15s.

Hark, I hear the piping of the shepherd and the tinkling bell of the wether.

It told when we was a gwine to have rain, and what kind of wether we was gwine to have in gineral.

God send us wether to bring her in this dangerous tyme of the yeare.

Patrick begged of him to give him the wether to save his honor.

Choose a fine-grained leg of wether mutton, of twelve or fourteen pounds weight; cut it ham shape, and let it hang two days.

Raynie wether all day, but much more by night, with an earthquake, etc.

It is said that a Lincoln wether has attained the weight of 304½ lbs.

In 1768 he killed a wether sheep which weighed one hundred three pounds gross.

Word Value for wether
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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