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单词 hoggaster
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hoggastern.

Brit. /ˈhɒɡəstə/, U.S. /ˈhɔɡəstər/, /ˈhɑɡəstər/
Forms:

α. Middle English hostgastre.

β. late Middle English 1700s– hoggaster; N.E.D. (1899) also records a form Middle English hogaster.

γ. (In sense 1) 1800s hogster.

δ. (In sense 2) late Middle English hoggestere, 1500s hoggester.

ε. (In sense 2) 1500s hogsteare, 1500s hogsteere, 1500s– hogsteer, 1600s hoggsteer, 1600s hogs-steer, 1600s hogstear.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French hogastre.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman hogastre, hoggaster pig or boar in its second or third year (a1128), young sheep (c1175) < English hog n.1 + Anglo-Norman -astre -aster suffix. Compare post-classical Latin hogaster, hoggaster pig in its second year (frequent from 1155 in British sources), young sheep, yearling (frequent from 1209 in British sources).The ε. forms may result from folk-etymological association with steer n.1
1. historical. A sheep in its second year; a yearling sheep. Cf. hog n.1 4, hogget n. 2.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by age > one year old or sheared once
shearling1378
hoggaster1388
hogget1421
shear-sheep1503
shear-hog?1523
hoggerel1530
shear wether hog1537
teg1537
hog sheep1552
lamb-hog1607
shearinga1642
two-teeth1776
hogling1856
1388 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/332/32) Item xl hostgastrez & c oues matrices cum iiijxx agnell. prec. capit. xvj d.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hoggacius, or Hoggaster (in old Latin Records), a young Sheep of the second Year.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. 368 Wool is not only distinguished as sheep from lamb, but as two-year-old, and hoggast or hoggerel.
1894 J. H. Wylie Hist. Eng. Henry IV II. 478 The farmers threatened with distraint upon their beasts and hogsters.
1973 Past & Present No. 59. 27 I have omitted..1266-7 and 1321-2, when the flock largely consisted of hoggasters.
1991 E. Miller Agrarian Hist. Eng. & Wales iii. 289 They nourished ewes at lambing time at East Knoyle and Burghclere or weakly wethers and hoggasters at Fareham and North Waltham.
2. A boar in its third year. Cf. hog n.1 3a. Now historical and rare.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > male > boar (uncastrated) > of specific age
hogget1360
gorgeauntc1420
hoggasterc1425
hoggerel1788
c1425 Twiti Venery (Vesp. B.xii) 151 The boor: frist he is a pyg as long as he is with his dame..and the iij yere he is callyd an hoggaster..and when he goth soole than is he callyd a boor.
1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. eiij And an hoggestere when he is of yeris .iij.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 236 A Bore is the first yeare a Pigge, the second an Hogge, the third a Hogsteare, the fourth a Bore, and the fifth yeare a Singuler.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 69 A sounder of hogsteers, Or thee brownye lion too stalck fro the mounten he wissheth.
1660 J. Howell Lex. Tetraglotton A wild Bore, the first year a Pigg, the 2. a Hogg, the 3. a Hoggsteer, the 4. a Bore, the 5. a Cingular.
1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) (at cited word) Hog-Steer, (among Hunters) a wild Boar three years old.
1922 E. Power Medieval Eng. Nunneries iii. 109 All were numbered and classified, cart-horses, brood-mares, colts, foals, oxen, bulls, cows, stirks (three-year old), two-year old, yearlings, calves, sheep, wethers, hogerells, lambs, hogs, boars, sows, hilts, hogsters and pigs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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