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 Translation for 'wether' from English to Finnish
NOUN   a wether | wethers
zool.
oinas {noun}
wether
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Translation for 'wether' from English to Finnish

wether
oinas {noun}zool.
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Usage Examples English
  • Generally, large wether (castrated buck) goats are used for packing, though does may also be packed.
  • Wether Holm or Wedder Holm is the name of several Shetland Islands in Scotland. It means 'small and rounded islet of the wether'.
  • "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" is an English Child ballad 277.
  • The unit represents the amount of feed required by a two-year-old, 45 kg (some sources state 50 kg) Merino sheep (wether or non-lactating, non-pregnant ewe) to maintain its weight.
  • Historically a part of the Claro Wapentake (as part of the parish of Spofforth) within the West Riding of Yorkshire, Wetherby is mentioned in the "Domesday Book" of 1086 as "Wedrebi", thought to derive from "wether-" or "ram-farm" or else meaning "settlement on the bend of a river".

  • The breed was imported into New Zealand in 1859, and after refrigeration was introduced in the 1880s, the Border Leicester was used as a crossing sire to produce heavyweight lambs and wether mutton.
  • The name of Wedderburn was given to the area by John Turnbull Thomson, and is one of the names in his infamous "Thomson's Barnyard", wedder being dialect form of the word wether, meaning a castrated sheep.
  • As with many ancient Dartmoor landmarks, Grey Wethers is the subject of local folklore, explaining the origin of the name ('wether' is an Old English word meaning sheep).
  • The term of office of the Secretary is usually four years, along with the National Assembly, but when the former resign in advance, the National Assembly can choose wether to elect another Secretary (who will serve until the natural expiration of the mandate is reached) or to dissolve the National Assembly itself earlier and call a new leadership election.
  • However, no renal tubular damage or visible deposition of calcium oxalate crystals in kidneys was found in yearling wether sheep fed diets containing soluble oxalate at 6.5 percent of dietary dry matter for about 100 days.

  • Oinas is an Estonian and Finnish surname meaning "ram" or "wether" ("Ovis aries").
  • Merriweather is a surname deriving from the Middle English "merie", meaning 'merry pleasant' and "wether", meaning weather.
  • is a Scottish surname, deriving from the elements "wether", an archaic name for 'sheep' and "spang", which means 'a narrow strip of land'.
  • Her husband read the letter and met her by the tree. He cut it down. The wether escaped, but the fox caught it; the duck escaped, but the falcon caught it, and the egg was crushed, killing the queen.
  • Radical 123 羊, the "sheep" radical, is seen in the ancient "Jie" 羯 "wether; Jie people" and the modern "Qiang" 羌 "shepherd; Qiang people".

  • Whole carcases of wether mutton are boiled in a cauldron for five or six hours with salt and a little water; the meat is then put up in terracotta jars with more salt and sealed with the mutton-fat.
  • , "great wether island") (...), has a small area of maritime grassland and bracken, and Little Innisvouls ([...] , "little wether island") (...) has strandline plant species.
  • A bellwether is an indicator of trends, often in the context of politics.
  • The "jiegu" (羯鼓; Wade–Giles: chieh2-ku3; pinyin: jiégǔ; sometimes translated as "wether drum"; also written as 鞨鼓) was a drum used in ancient China.
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