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单词 gilt pig
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gilt pig
A young sow or female pig, esp. one that has yet to produce a litter. Also more fully gilt pig.The term has been variously applied from region to region (see quots.).
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c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 22* Sengler troie et suel, Bor sowe and gilte.
c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 77 (MED) Tak vnto þe man þe galle of þe galte, and to þe woman þe galle of þe gilt.
1570 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 354 A sowe and a gylt vjs.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxiv. 149 Let not your gylt go to bore, till she be past a yeere old.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 319 The grease of a young guelt which neuer had pigs.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 185 The spaid Guilts, as they call them, they steem the more profitable.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 332 Gilts.., young female pigs, whether open or spayed.
1848 Farmer's Mag. Feb. 137/2 Gilt pig, 21 weeks old, highly commended.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Gilt, a female pig before she has had a litter.
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. Gilt, a female pig, called by this name till it has had a second litter, when it is called a sow.
1920 ‘Blue Bk.’ of Hampshire Breed (Hampshire Directory & Year Book Company) 135 A boy starting with a gilt pig will be the owner of a sow and litter in about a year's time.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. X. 724/2 Well-grown gilts can be put to the boar at eight months.
2007 Irish Farmers Jrnl. 29 Sept. (J3 section) 24/3 Move gilts to the farrowing house five days before farrowing.
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