ROTHER

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Bovine. -- n.

2.
a.

A bovine beast. [Obs.] Shak. Rother beasts, cattle of the bovine genus; black cattle. [Obs.] Golding. -- Rother soil, the dung of rother beasts.

3.
n.

A rudder. Rother nail, a nail with a very full head, used for fastening the rudder irons of ships; -- so called by shipwrights.

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