"belwether" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1591, Edmund Spenser, \"Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubbard's Tale\", line 294, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie",
          "text": "Thereto right well this Curdog...will serve, my sheepe to gather and drive to follow after their Belwether."
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        "Archaic form of bellwether (“the leading sheep of a flock”)."
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