wether
noun [ C ] uk/ˈweð.ər/ us/ˈweð.ɚ/
阉羊，去势公羊
a male sheep that has been castrated (= had its sex organs removed)
He drove around the paddocks checking wethers, ewes and lambs. 他开着车在围场里各处检查公羊、母羊和小羊的情况。
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- Crossbred wether lambs sold at £27.
- He got the job, looking at agricultural policy, because he was able to tell his interviewer that a teg, a hogget and a wether were all different types of sheep.
- The sheep here are divided into flocks of about three hundred breeding ewes, or four hundred wethers, in each.
- Emyr, as he saw me staggering with a big wether, asked me anxiously if I could manage it.