Wether synonyms

77 lb per head given by Oxford-Hampshire cross-bred wether lambs, aged nine months two weeks.

At the 1905 show, sheep of each breed, and also cross-breds, competed as (1) wether lambs under twelve months old, and (2) wether sheep above twelve and under twenty-four months old.

I'm afraid to ask, but what's a wether?

In the case of wether sheep, twelve to twenty-four months old, the highest daily increase was o� 56 lb per head as yielded by Lincolns, aged twenty-one months.

The only exception was in the case of the slowly-maturing Cheviot and mountain breeds, for which the second class was for wether sheep of any age above twelve months.