Wether vs Gether - What's the difference?
wether | gether |
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=
(obsolete, or, regional)
*{{quote-book, year=1919, author=Frederic Moorman, title=More Tales of the Ridings, chapter=, edition=
, passage="'Twere back-end o' t' yeer," he continued at last, "an' t' lads had gone into t' woods to gether hesel-nuts an' accorns. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1898, author=John Hartley, title=Yorkshire Lyrics, chapter=, edition=
, passage=An a taicher wise aw've faand thi, An this lesson gained throo thee; 'At when dangers gether raand me, Th' wisest tactics is to flee. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Sarah P. McLean Greene, title=Cape Cod Folks, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I remember once, we'd had a spell o' weather jest like this, and it begun to gether up in the same way. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1872, author=Edward Eggleston, title=The End Of The World, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But the silence was broken by Cynthy Ann, who came into the hall and called, "Jule, I wish you would go to the barn and gether the eggs; I want to make some cake." }}
As verbs the difference between wether and gether
is that wether is to castrate a male sheep or goat while gether is (obsolete|or|regional).As a noun wether
is a castrated buck goat.wether
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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
* bellwethergether
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