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ˈpig-cote Also pigs-cote. [f. pig n.1 + cote n.1] A pig's house or pigsty.
1600Heywood 2nd Pt. Edw. IV, Wks. 1874 I. 94, I will not leaue S. Paul or Burgundy A bare pigs-cote to shroud them in. 1605in Halliwell Shaks. (1887) II. 142 Warning to Henry Smyth to plucke downe his pigges-cote which is built nere the chapple wall. 1810Hull Improv. Act 53 Any hogstie or pigscote. 1888C. Kerry in Jrnl. Derby Archæol. Soc. X. 20 A stone from this wall formerly decorated the gable-end of a pig-cote. attrib.1865B. Brierley Irkdale I. 144 Throwing his arms upon the pig-cote wall. |