sheatn.
dialect.
A pig under a year old.
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1534 Inventory in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/83) f. 118 Yong hogges called Shettes.
1572 in Pegge's Kenticisms (E.D.S.) (at cited word) One sow, two sheetes.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 661 In English we call a young swine a Pigge, A weaning Pigge, a sheate, a Yealke, and so foorth.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxxvii. 168 Three hundred barrow-pigs or sheats.
1736 J. Lewis Hist. Isle Tenet (ed. 2) 38 Scheat, a little Pig spay'd.
1852 in Notes & Queries 1st Ser. VI. 339/1 They [Kentish men] defined ‘sheets’ to be ‘pigs between the age of six and ten months’.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Sheat, a young hog of the first year.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
† sheatadj.
Obsolete rare.
? Trim, neat.
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a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. D3v Neat sheat and fine, as briske as a cup of wine.
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