wedder
Noun
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Noun
wedder (plural wedders)
- A person who marries.
- 1864, St. James' Magazine and United Empire Review (volume 9, page 239)
- 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; […]
- 1864, St. James' Magazine and United Empire Review (volume 9, page 239)
- See Thesaurus:spouse
wedder (plural wedders)
- (obsolete, regional) Alternative form of wether
- 1829, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Introduction to the 1829 edition,
- 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.
- 1829, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Introduction to the 1829 edition,
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