Wedder

Origin

from Old English weþer ‎(“a wether, ram”)

Full definition of wedder

Noun

1. (obsolete, regional) A castrated buck goat or ram, a wether.
• 1829, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Introduction to the 1829 edition,^{http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7025/7025-h/7025-h.htm}They then retreated to an out-house, took a wedder from the fold, killed it, and supped off the carcass, for which (it is said) they offered payment to the proprietor.
• 1840, Patrick Leslie, Diary entry for 21 February, 1840, cited in Henry Stuart Russell, The Genesis of Queensland, Sydney: Turner & Henderson, 1888, Chapter 7,^{http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1305181h.html}Our stock consisted of four thousand breeding ewes in lamb, one hundred ewe hoggets, one thousand wedder hoggets, one hundred rams, and five hundred wedders, three and four years old.