Definition of Rother

1. a. Bovine.

2. n. A rudder.

Definition of Rother

1. Noun. a horned animal, especially an ox ¹

2. Noun. A rudder. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rother

1. an ox [n -S] - See also: ox

Medical Definition of Rother

1. Bovine. A bovine beast. Rother beasts, cattle of the bovine genus; black cattle. Rother soil, the dung of rother beasts. Origin: AS. Hryther; cf. D. Rund. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rother

roted
rotelike
rotella
rotelle
roteln
rotely
rotenoid
rotenoids
rotenone
rotenones
rotes
rotework
rotgut
rotguts
rother (current term)
rothers
roti
rotifer
rotifera
rotiferal
rotiferan
rotiferans
rotifers
rotiform
roting
rotini
rotis
rotisserie

Literary usage of Rother

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Anthology of German Literature by Calvin Thomas (1909)
"KING rother A poem of 5302 verses, written about 1150 in a mixture of Middle ... rother is a king of Italy who sends twelve envoys to Constantinople to win ..."

2. An Anthology of German Literature by Calvin Thomas (1909)
"KING rother A poem of 5302 verses, written about 1150 in a mixture of Middle ... rother is a king of Italy who sends twelve envoys to Constantinople to win ..."

3. Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of by Sussex Archaeological Society (1877)
"IRKS ON THE ANCIENT COURSE OF THE RIVER rother, BY THOMAS ELLIOTT. ... The rother does not divide itself into two channels at this point, but receives the ..."

4. Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages by Wilhelm Wägner, M. W. Macdowall (1883)
"KING rother PUTS THE SHOES tt THE PRINCESS'S FEET. KING rother ... Here it was that the great and glorious King rother, th father of his people and the ..."

5. Popular Epics of the Middle Ages of the Norse-German and Carlovingian Cycles by John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow (1865)
"THE LOMBARD SUB-CYCLE: KING rother. BEFORE passing on to the Carlovingian cycle proper, it seems necessary to say something of a poem decidedly epical in ..."

6. Poems of Places by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1876)
"AGAIN we meet, where often we have met Dear rother! native Don ! We meet again, to talk, with vain regret, ..."

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