单词 | shear-hog |
释义 | shear-hogn. dialect. A name given to a lamb after the first shearing and until the second. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.?1523 |
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