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# ewe

«ewe» in Mova's school dictionary: **A female sheep** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a ewe, ewes)

### meaning for a pupil

A female sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ewe/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

On farms and in science lessons about animals, a ewe is the mother sheep, a ram is the male and a lamb is the baby; in maths problems farmers count ewes and their lambs. Phrases: «a ewe and her lamb», «ewes and rams».

### examples

- The ewe fed her two lambs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ewe/#x1)
- The farmer has 30 ewes and 2 rams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ewe/#x2)
- Each ewe had twins, so 10 ewes had 20 lambs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ewe/#x3)
- The ewes were sheared in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ewe/#x4)
- A ewe can know her lamb by its bleat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ewe/#x5)
- We watched the ewes in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ewe/#x6)
- Ewe's milk and cheese, woollen jackets and stockings! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ewe/#x7)

### note

Said «you» — homophone with «you» and «yew» (a tree). «A ewe» (not «an»), because it starts with a «you» sound. In maths, ewes + rams = total adult sheep; lambs are counted separately.

### In the corpora

- [And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.569/)
- [And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What mean these seven ewe-lambs which thou hast set by themselves?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.570/)
- [(32-15) two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1014/)
- [And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and its young both in one day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.659/)
- [From following the ewes that give suck He brought him, to be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1398/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ewe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ewe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.