† hoggaster Obs.
Also 3–4 hogaster; 4 hoggestere, 6 hogsteere, 7 hogsteare, 9 hogsteer (all in sense 1); 9 hogster (in sense 2).
[med.L. hogaster, dim. from Eng. hog; also in AFr. form hogastre. The forms hogsteer, etc., appear to be due to false etymology.]
1. A boar in its third year; cf. hog n.1 2 b.
| c 1420 Venery de Twety in Rel. Ant. I. 151 The boor frist he is a pyg as long as he is with his dame..the .iij. yere he is callyd an hoggaster. 1486 Bk. St. Albans E iij a, And an hoggestere when he is of yeris .iij. 1583 Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 100 A sounder of hogsteers, Or thee brownye lion too stalck fro the mounten he wissheth. 1598 J. Manwood Lawes Forest iv. §5 (1615) 43 The third yeere he is a Hogsteare. 1831 in Johnson Sportsman's Cycl. |
2. A young sheep, a hog or hogget.
| [c 1175 Caen Cartulary (MS. Paris, Bibl. Nat., Lat. 5650) lf. 45 b, Septem viginti oves matres..& 60. & 12. inter gerces & Hogastres, medietatem gerces & medietatem Hogastres. c 1290 Fleta ii. lxxix, Tertium [ovile] pro hogastris annatis & juvenibus. 1332–3 in Rogers Agric. & Prices I. 679 Ewes..Hoggasters..Jercions..Lambs.] 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Hoggacius, or Hoggaster (in old Latin Records), a young Sheep of the second Year. 1894 Wylie Eng. Hen. IV, II. 478 The farmers threatened with distraint upon their beasts and hogsters. |