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单词 wether hog
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wether hog
wether hog n. (also wether hog sheep) a male sheep (castrated or not) before its first shearing; cf. hog n.1 4; chiefly Scottish and northern.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > male > defined by age
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1451 in A. Clark Lincoln Diocese Documents (1914) 51 I will my scheperd hafe vj wedyr hogges.
1537 N.C. Wills (Surtees 1908) 103 I geve unto..John half a hundreth of share wedder hogges.
1541 in J. Gage Hist. & Antiq. Hengrave, Suffolk (1822) 118 Item, lix wether hogg shepe at xiiijd. the pece.
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. (1623) 106 The first year a male Lambe is called a weather-Hog and a female Lambe an Ewe-Hog.
1776 Compl. Grazier (ed. 4) 149 So of the male sheep, we may reckon them wedder or wedder hogs, after they are..of a year's growth.
1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 260 Sheep,..wether-hogs, chilver-hogs from thence [sc. Christmas] till shear-time.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 38 [In Scotland] a female is called a ewe-hogg, a male a tup-hogg, and a castrated male a wether-hogg.
1882 Somerset Co. Gaz. 18 Mar. 12 good ewe and wether hogs, warranted sound.
2001 B. Broady In this Block there lives Slag 2 When I first met Jacob he was about nine months old—a wether hogg, running with the yard-dogs.
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