单词 | hogget wool |
释义 | > as lemmashogget wool General attributive (in sense 2), as hogget fleece, hogget ram, hogget sheep, hogget wool, etc. ΚΠ 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) II. 259 If a man has only rich land in those baronies, without any in Tipperary, then he keeps only bullocks regularly; but he buys in some hoggit sheep, which he keeps a year, and sells fat. 1808 H. Dutton Statist. Surv. County Clare v. 262 A hogget ram of each breed was weighed by Mr. Blood. 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 358/1 The hogget wool is..finer than the other long wools, and is applicable to many new and valuable purposes. 1842 J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. (1862) II. 154 When the lamb has not been shorn, the fleece taken off the succeeding summer is called hogget, or teg wool. 1878 J. A. Clarke in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 14 ii. 560 Sometimes the weight of a hogget fleece exceeds 14 lbs.; but a good average clip, of which half is ewe wool, is about 9 lbs. per fleece. 1922 W. Perry Sheep Farming in N.Z. 121 The hogget, wether, and wet ewe fleeces are best made into separate lines, provided..at least three bales of each can be made. 1979 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Res. 22 261 Correlations between the same trait measured at the hogget age and over the lifetime of ewe are referred to as ‘direct’ correlations. 2008 Irish Independent (Nexis) 22 July As July draws to a close, it is time to start thinking about next year's lamb crop again. As I write this article, the first hogget ram sales have already taken place. < as lemmas |
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