| 释义 |
sheder dial.|ˈʃiːdə(r)|
Forms: 6–7 shidder, 7 shether, 8 sheeder, 9 sheder.
[f. she + ? deer: cf. heder.]
A female sheep; spec. a lamb from eight or nine months old to her first shearing.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Sept. 211 For, had his wesand bene a little widder, He would haue deuoured both hidder and shidder [Gloss He and she. Male and Female]. 1620T. Granger Div. Logike 169 As appeares by hether, and shether, i. male, and female. 1633J. Fisher Fuimus Troes iii. ix. Chorus, Hidder, eke and shidder. 1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln. 325 They are forced to sell their heeders, and joist their sheeders in the spring. 1851Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XII. ii. 341 The ‘heder’ hogs being grazed on the seeds, and the ‘sheders’ on grass. |