Roth"er (?), a. [AS. hry&edh;er; cf. D. rund.] Zool.
Bovine.
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n.
A bovine beast.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Rother beasts, cattle of the bovine genus; black cattle. [Obs.] Golding. -- Rother soil, the dung of rother beasts.
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Roth"er, n. [OE. See Rudder.]
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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