wedderとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

wedder (複数形 wedders)

1. 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; […]

同意語

• See Thesaurus:spouse

名詞

wedder (複数形 wedders)

1. (obsolete, regional) Alternative form of wether (“castrated buck goat または ram”)
   • 1829, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Introduction to the 1829 edition,^[1]

     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,^[2]

     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.