hogget
(ˈhɒgɪt)
Also -it.
[f. hog n.1 + -et1.]
1. A young boar of the second year. ? Obs.
| [1332–3 in Rogers Agric. & Prices I. 679 Sows..Porci..Hoggets. 1420 in Annal. Præmonst. II. 591 (Du C.) De porcis triginta tres, de Hogettis centum viginti sex, et porcellis octoginta novem.] 1786 Chambers' Cycl., Hogget, or Hogrel, a young boar of the second year. |
2. A yearling sheep; cf. hog n.1 4.
| [1370 Mem. Ripon (Surt.) II. 130 Equos..vaccas..hoggettes..multon'..oves matrices..agnos.] 1538 Elyot Dict., Bidentes, shepe with ii. teth, called in some place hogrelles, or hogattes. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Hogget or Hogrel, a Country-Word for such a Sheep [Hoggaster]. 1732 Gentlem. Guide to Cattle (ed. 2) 32, I have explained..that at a Year old they are called Hogs, Hoggets or Hogarels. 1834 D. Low Elem. Pract. Agric. (1843) 793 In ten days..after shearing, the wether-hoggets, now dinmonts, and such of the ewe-hoggets, now gimmers, as are not to be retained on the farm for breeding, may be sold. Ibid. 794 From this time [weaning] forward the lambs, now termed hogs or hoggets, are kept separate from the breeding ewes. 1863 Morton Cycl. Agric. II. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Hogget or Lamb⁓hog, a young sheep before the first shearing; a one-year-old sheep. 1884 F. J. Lloyd Sci. Agric., Careful management should enable the hoggets to be sold when ten months old, weighing from 80 to 90 lbs. 1886 Daily News 14 June 2/8 (Norwich) Hoggetts in their wool brought 45s. to 55s. |
3. A year-old colt. dial.
| 1787 Grose Prov. Gloss., Hoggets, hog-colts, colts of a year old. Hants. |
4. attrib.
| 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 358/1 The hogget wool is..finer than the other long wools, and is applicable to many new and valuable purposes. 1842 J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. (1862) II. 154 When the lamb has not been shorn, the fleece taken off the succeeding summer is called hogget, or teg wool. |