hedern.
/ˈhiːdə/ dialect.
A male sheep; spec. one from eight or nine months old till its first shearing.
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1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 211 He would haue deuoured both hidder & shidder [gloss. He & she, Male and Female].
1633 J. Fisher Fuimus Troes ii. ix. sig. Gi Hidder, eke and shidder.
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 325 (E.D.S.) They are forced to sell their heeders, and joist their sheeders in the spring.
1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 333 A lamb eight or nine months old, and until his first shearing, is called a ‘heder’ or ‘sheder’..or ‘lamb-hog’.
1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 341 The ‘heder’ hogs being grazed on the seeds, and the ‘sheders’ on grass.
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