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单词 pigtaker
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pigtakern.

Forms: see pig n.1 and taker n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pig n.1, taker n.
Etymology: < pig n.1 + taker n. (see sense 2b at that entry).
Obsolete.
A supplier of pigs. Cf. taker n. 2b.Formerly an office in the Royal Household.
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1455 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) *21 Th' office of the Catery..1 Grome Piggetaker.
1538 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 218 Allowance to be given..unto Thomas Playfoote, Yeoman-Pigtaker for every Neale, being fatt and good,..that he shall send into the Larder.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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