Word: 'bellwether' • Extended Annotations

bellwether

Extended Annotations

Ancestral Lore of bellwether

also bell-wether, "lead sheep (on whose neck a bell was hung) of a domesticated flock"
bell (n.) + wether (male sheep)

from mid-14^th century onward: "chief, leader"

bellwether noun

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