ˈhog-pen U.S.
[hog n. 13.]
A pen or enclosure for swine.
| 1640 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1910) V. 374 The Neck of Land called hog penn Neck. 1663 Springfield (Mass.) Rec. I. 312 There is granted to Rowland Thomas 6 acres of the low land on hog pen dingle below ye place where hog pen was. 1695 Lond. Gaz. No. 3048/4 A convenient Still-house ready fitted with Stills, Coppers, Hogpenns. 1769 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1917) XII. 285 If the bounds of the Hog pen cannot be found. 1837 Southern Lit. Messenger III. 238 Cornwallis's cave is converted to a hog-pen. 1874 Rep. Vermont Board Agric. II. 512 In said basement I have my hog-pen. 1964 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlii. 21 All [pigs] may live in a pigpen or a hogpen. |
| attrib. 1850 Rep. U.S. Comm. Patents, Agric. 1849 122 Leached ashes, hen-house and hog-pen refuse are very valuable fertilizers. |