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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Hogge feader, porculator.

1661 K. W. Confused Characters 125 She to hog serving, to Hacklingt, to spinning.

1699 T. Brown tr. Erasmus Seven New Colloquies iv. 27 Let me dye if I wou'd not sooner marry my Daughter to..a Hog-driver.

1708 A. van Leeuwenhoek in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 114 I also caused a Hog-Butcher to bring me divers Tongues of Hogs.

1772 Let. 15 Mar. in Brit. Mag. 1 201/2 Whether John's father was a distiller, or a hog feeder, or any other such paltry business.

1790 M. Hunter Jrnl. (1894) 79 At Wallajabad we had the finest hog-hunting that ever was.

1801 Sporting Mag. 17 218/1 Hog-hunters coming by surprize [sic] on a tigress and her cubs.

1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus i. 11 Call in the Jews, Solomon the court porkman, Moses the sow-gelder, and Zephaniah The hog-butcher.

1857 Cincinnati (Ohio) Gaz. in Amer. Vet. Jrnl. 2 42 These were lively, healthy hogs, not still fed. A panic prevails among the hog-feeders of the above district, and they are selling off as fast as they can.

1872 R. G. McClellan Golden State xxvi. 393 The hog farmer buys every thing, even bacon and lard.

1918 Polit. Sci. Q. 33 219 It is..chiefly because of the large amount of corn which we devote to hog-feeding that the United States maintains over 60 swine per hundred of population.

1941 Winnipeg Free Press 30 Jan. 17/3 Proceeds of the hog farming go to provide comforts for the troops.

1965 C. Himes Cotton comes to Harlem ii. 18 His two ace detectives..had always looked like two hog farmers on a weekend in the Big Town.

1997 Virginian-Pilot (Nexis) 25 May 18 Carl Sandburg's ‘Chicago’..celebrates the lusty vitality of a working-class town known for its painted women, gangsters and hog butchers.

2008 Manila Standard (Nexis) 15 Jan. The Nong Bua farming company in southern Bangkok..is primarily engaged in hog raising.