the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > male > defined by age (4)
a male sheep (castrated or not) before its first shearing; cf. hog, n.1 4; chiefly Scottish and northern.
A male sheep; spec. one from eight or nine months old till its first shearing.
A male sheep that is one year old.