Familiar name for a sheep (male) (7)
I believe the answer is:
bertram
'male' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'familiar name for a sheep' is the wordplay.
'familiar name' becomes 'bert' (I am not sure about the 'familiar' bit.).
'for' says to put letters next to each other.
'a sheep' becomes 'ram' (male sheep).
'bert'+'ram'='BERTRAM'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bertram that I've seen before include "Wooster" , "Chap" .)