"whethering" meaning in English

See whethering in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} whethering (uncountable)
  1. (obsolete, dialect) The retention of the afterbirth in cows or sheep. Tags: dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-whethering-en-noun-xX65boCD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for whethering meaning in English (0.7kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "whethering (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The retention of the afterbirth in cows or sheep."
      ],
      "id": "en-whethering-en-noun-xX65boCD",
      "links": [
        [
          "retention",
          "retention"
        ],
        [
          "afterbirth",
          "afterbirth"
        ],
        [
          "cow",
          "cow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, dialect) The retention of the afterbirth in cows or sheep."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whethering"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "whethering (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The retention of the afterbirth in cows or sheep."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "retention",
          "retention"
        ],
        [
          "afterbirth",
          "afterbirth"
        ],
        [
          "cow",
          "cow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, dialect) The retention of the afterbirth in cows or sheep."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whethering"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.