From Ellis Peters's The Rose Rent page 91 (the sheriff, Hugh Beringar, is speaking):

'He's off back to the hills before night. It seems he has some hoggets up there with a rot of the feet, he and his man came back only to get a supply of the wash to treat them.'

Apparently a hogget is a yearling sheep, and hog can mean a young sheep before its first shearing.


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