sow-pign.
A young female pig, esp. one which has been spayed; a sow.
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1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Scrofula,..a littell sow pigge.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 16 One Boare pig, one Sow pig, that sucketh before.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cochonniere, a Sow; or Sow-pigge.
1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 11 There is within a mile or two, a Sow-pig Hath suckt a Brach, and now hunts the Deere..Aswell as any Hound in Cyprus.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1752) 289 A sow-pig will eat well at a month old, but a boar-pig at that age will eat strong.
1762 Philos. Trans. 1761 (Royal Soc.) 52 36 The four..soldiers touching with their swords..a sow-pig, held by an herald.
1838 G. P. R. James Robber I. vi. 116 With a cut in his neck, which has made him bleed like an old sow pig.
1883 W. G. Black Folk-med. xii. 198 There the sow-pigs were reared.
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