单词 | wether hog |
释义 | > as lemmaswether 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. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > male > defined by age wether hog1451 wether teg1550 heder1579 pur-hog1668 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. < as lemmas |
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