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单词 shear-hog
释义

shear-hogn.

/ˈʃɪəhɒɡ/
Forms: Also 1500s sharroge, 1700s sherrug, 1700s–1800s shar-hog, 1800s sharrag.
Etymology: < shear n.2 + hog n.1
dialect.
A name given to a lamb after the first shearing and until the second.
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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
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiiii The ewes by themselfe, the share hogges and theyues by themselfe.
1558 Will of Oliver Leder (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/41) f. 136 Ewes or sharroges.
1736 W. Ellis New Exper. Husbandry 52 The third Year a Sherrug.
1784 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. Midland Counties (1790) II. 27 Fifty ‘sharhogs’, of the new Leicestershire breed.
1786 G. Culley Observ. Live Stock (1807) Introd. p. xviii Then they take the name of shearing, shearling, shear-hog.
1857 ‘G. Eliot’ Mr. Gilfil in Scenes Clerical Life i He thought it a mere frustration of the purposes of language to talk of ‘shear-hogs’ and ‘ewes’ to men who habitually said ‘sharrags’ and ‘yowes’.
1866 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) II. 138/1 A lamb becomes a teg in its first winter, and afterwards a hogget; and, on losing its coat, a shearhog.
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