单词 | hog pen |
释义 | hog penn. Chiefly U.S. A pen in which hogs are kept; a pigpen.Recorded earliest in place names. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > placing in sty > pigsty or pen sty?c1225 hoghouse1350 hog cote1414 swine sty1414 swine cote?c1430 swine housea1450 swine garth1459 swine house garth1466 hogsty?a1500 swine hulka1500 swine cruive1501 swine hull1566 cruivec1575 pigsty1580 swine's-steada1599 pigscote1599 hog pen1640 hoggery1642 crawl1661 swine crew1673 pigscot1679 1640 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1910) 5 374 The Neck of Land called hog penn Neck. 1663 in Springfield (Mass.) Rec. (1898) I. 312 There is granted to Rowland Thomas 6 acres of the low land on hog pen dingle below ye place where hog pen was. 1695 London Gaz. No. 3048/4 A convenient Still-house ready fitted with Stills, Coppers, Hogpenns. 1769 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1917) 12 285 If the bounds of the Hog pen cannot be found. 1793 J. Hunter Hist. Jrnl. xii. 312 Another of my sows was poisoned on the 24th, so that I found it necessary to confine them in a hog-pen. 1837 Southern Literary Messenger 3 238 Cornwallis's cave is converted to a hog-pen. 1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 122 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI Leached ashes, hen-house and hog-pen refuse are very valuable fertilizers. 1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 512 In said basement I have my hog-pen. 1921 Z. Grey Call of Canyon (1924) vii. 171 ‘Yes—yes’, claimed Carley, gladly. ‘I'm ready to—to go pet your hogs—anything.’ ‘By George! I'll take you up’, he declared. ‘I'll bet you won't go near one of my hogpens.’ 1965 J. M. Brewer Worser Days 93 Papa said that his old master had about nine different hog-pens. 1995 W. H. Turner Chesapeake Boyhood (1997) 72 He took some boards off his hog pen, some wire off his chicken pen, crated the bear hound up and shipped him..to Arizona. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1640 |
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