A castrated male sheep (wether) with gray wool or coloring; a gray ram past breeding age.
Compound of 'gray' and 'wether' (from Old English 'hwæðer', a castrated ram). A descriptive agricultural term for identifying specific animals in a flock by appearance.
Shepherds developed incredibly specific animal names—white wether, gray wether, spotted wether—because knowing individual sheep in your flock was the difference between profit and loss in historic farming!
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