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store swine
c. Designating animals kept for breeding or as part of the ordinary stock of a farm; also animals bought lean to be fattened; as store beast, store bullock, store cattle, store cow, store pig, store sheep, store sow, store stock, store swine; store-farm n. a farm on which cattle are reared, a stock farm; also store-farmer, store-farming, store-master.
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1602 Inv. in Collectanea Archæologica (1863) II. 111 One sow and ij store pigges.
1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xi. 245 'Tis better like store-cattle to be kept lean and hungry, than with the fatted Ox to tumble in flowry Meadows.
1683 London Gaz. No. 1872/4 Ten Scotch Store-Bullocks.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 353 If they are eat off with Store~sheep.
1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 110/1 The mortality has been as great in most of the other store-farms.
1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 227 Stale meat..should be cleared out, and given to store swine.
1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 220 The sheep-graziers or store masters, who occupy much of the higher parts of the country.
1806 W. M. Morison Decisions Court of Session XXXIII. 14512 The said William Porteous, and others, store-masters and tenants in the parishes of Lesmahago, [etc.].
1808 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. V. 271 The store-farmer, who rears the sheep.
1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat IV. 15 A journey of forty miles to bring home a lot of store beasts to take place of the fat lot which had been just sold.
1822 W. J. Napier (title) A Treatise on Practical Store-Farming.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 400 Store, applied to a domestic animal, especially to a sow, means one kept for breeding. ‘A store sow.’
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 71 The store-sheep in Scotland—that is, the ewe-hoggs—are always fed as fully as the wether-hoggs which are intended to be fattened.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Store-master, the tenant of a store farm, that is, a sheep walk in Scotland.
1885 R. C. Praed Head Station I. xvii. 283 Oh, we are not fit for anything but store-cattle: we are all blady grass and brigalow scrub.
1901 Scotsman 3 Apr. 7/3 191 fat cattle, 486 store cattle, 76 fat sheep, 120 store sheep.
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