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shear-hog dial.|ˈʃɪəhɒg|
Also 6 sharroge, 8 sherrug, 8–9 shar-hog, 9 sharrag.
[f. shear n.2 + hog n.1]
A name given to a lamb after the first shearing and until the second.
1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §53 The ewes by theym selfe, the share hogges and theyues by them selfe, the lambes by theym selfe. 1558Will of Oliv. Leder, Huntingdon (Somerset Ho.), Ewes or sharrogs. 1736W. Ellis New Exper. 52 (E.D.S.) The third year a sherrug. 1784W. H. Marshall Midl. Counties (1790) II. 27 Fifty ‘sharhogs’ of the new Leicestershire breed. 1857Geo. Eliot Scenes Clerical Life, Mr. Gilfil's Love Story i, He thought it a mere frustration of the purposes of language to talk of ‘shear-hogs’ and ‘ewes’ to men who habitually said ‘sharrags’ and ‘yowes’. |