Wedder
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wedder is a noun meaning A person who marries.
Meaning
A person who marries.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, regional) Alternative form of wether (“castrated buck goat or ram”).
Example Sentences
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.
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; […]
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.
Word Forms
- wedders
Synonyms for wedder
Depending on context, synonyms include spouse.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include widder, marrier, married, widderer, intermarrier, remarried.
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