dinmontn.
/ˈdɪnmɒnt/, /ˈdɪnmənt/, U.S. /ˈdɪnmənt/, Scottish English /ˈdɪnmɔnt/, /ˈdɪnmənt/ Scottish and northern dialect.
The name given in Scotland, and the Border counties of England, to a wether between the first and second shearing.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > male > castrated or wether > at specific stage in life
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hog lamb1810
1424 Sc. Acts Jas. I (1814) 4 (Jam.) Item, Gymmer, Dyn~mont, or Gaitis, ilk ane to xiid.
1494 Act. Dom. Conc. 353 (Jam.) Vijxx of gymmeris and dymmondis.
1542 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 119 I yeue vnto saynt cuthb'te guild a dynmonthe or ellis the price.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 53 The laif of ther fat flokkis follouit..gylmyrs and dilmondis.
1584 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 18 Item at Shaudforthe a weather, a yowe, a dinmont, and ij lams.
1791–2 Statist. Acc. Berw. III. 155 (Jam.) When they are 18 months old, after the first fleece is taken off..they are called dimmotts.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xi. 149 Killancureit talked..of top-dressing and bottom-dressing, and year-olds, and gimmers, and dinmonts . View more context for this quotation
1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) A lamb is called a hog in autumn, and after the first shearing of the new year, a dinmont if it be a male sheep, and a gimmer if an ewe.
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