Meaning & use
Chilver
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A dialect term, chiefly used in southern England, for a female lamb or young ewe.
See it in a sentence
The farmer separated the chilvers from the ram lambs before the autumn sale.
Older shepherds in the region still use 'chilver' rather than 'ewe lamb.'
A note on using this word
A survival of older English dialect vocabulary once common in agricultural communities; it remains in limited use among farmers and in regional glossaries.
Words with a similar meaning
ewe lamb
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Words with an opposite meaning
ram lambtup lamb
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