Wether vs Shearling - What's the difference?
wether | shearling | coordinate terms |
A castrated buck goat.
A castrated ram.
* {{quote-book
, year=1527
, author=George Joye
, title= The storie of my state after the bishop had receyued the pryours letters
, chapter=
A sheep that has been shorn for the first time
* {{quote-book, 1853, David Low, On the Domesticated Animals of the British Isles, , page=97
, passage=They are rarely fattened when shearlings , the usual period being after they have lost their second fleece, and are wethers. }}
(chiefly, US) A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth
Wether is a coordinate term of shearling.
As nouns the difference between wether and shearling
is that wether is a castrated buck goat while shearling is a sheep that has been shorn for the first time.As a verb wether
is to castrate a male sheep or goat.wether
English
Alternative forms
* (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)citation, isbn= , page= , passage=There was a great fyer in the chamber, the wether was colde, and I saw now and then a Bishop come out;}} (cited after Samuel Roffey Maitland, 1866, p. 8)
Derived terms
* bellwethershearling
English
Noun
(en noun)- Her coat was lined with shearling.