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shoat

[ UK /ʃˈə‍ʊt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a young pig

How To Use shoat In A Sentence

  • He also tells a story about how Uncle John bought a shoat and ate until he vomited and then left the rest.
  • (Oxford English Dictionary) [28.2] A shoat is a weaned pig under a year old. Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733]
  • On a weanling shoat he'd earlier noticed rooting among the fallen apples beneath this favorite of all his trees. Ecce viator : Behold the Traveler
  • My uncle would go to the auction over at Logan County Stockyards on the edge of Booneville and get a couple of shoats (young just-weaned hogs).
  • The entire group watches the shoat cause its destruction.
  • It appears, by the way, that there is a saying in the Eastern Thorps: I know a shoat from a sheepdog. Octopus revisited
  • A roasted "shoat" graced each end of the board, a side of bacon the centre, while salted beef, cut in thin slices, with pickles and cheese, constituted the side-dishes. A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others
  • Pork and pinot is a divine combo, and this biodynamic wine shined with the shoat and its stuffing. Wine: Does vino or beer go better with food?
  • The shoat was a large pig now, but travel had kept him thin. The Lonesome Dove Series
  • They came from an animal called a shoat, a cross between a sheep and a goat. Times, Sunday Times
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