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TEd!!! where are you?  I did groan, Jackie. that's a good thing!
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Thanks, eta. Yes, everybody write to Ted and tell him he has to come here and do better, so as to spare you all from such as what I wrote. (Hey--whatever works!)
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Please, what's a shoat? Is it a cross between a sheep and a goat?
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some one will give exactly, but a shoat is pig--
i think a female,(sow) who has not yet been bred-- so full grown, but not yet proven to be a good breeder.. (or it could be a pig under 1 year in age... again, bigger than a piglet, but not what ever you call a full grown pig! )
we did have a thread about animal 'names' like chick, pullet, hen, and the same for pigs, and cattle,ie., calf, cow/bull, steer, oxen..so you could search here....
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Thank you, dxb and Helen--I was hoping to create a speck of curiosity and enlightenment, as well as be silly.
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so was i right? an unbred sow under 1 year of age=shoat?
i am sure the name is used in UK too, i seem to remember it from one of the "All Creatures Great and Small" series...(which i first read, and later watched).
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I looked at a half dozen online dictionaries, and they all said just "young pig" or "young hog". None of them specified sex.
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an unbred sow under 1 year of age=shoat?
= gilt
(dunno about shoat - sounds like a <messy> goat)
edit to clarify: I simply don't know anything about that word, not doubting the alternative.
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Another obsolete word for pig = scrofa
Scrofula = little pig = enlarged lymph glands (which allegely looked like baby pigs)presumably related to ingestion of milk from cow with bovine tuberculosis = "kings evil", allegedly curable by touch of a king. Trivia, Sam Johnson had scrofula.
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...truck on Canadian highways with lanes narrowed by heavy snow, coming at you at 70mph, when your defrosters and wipers have not yet warmed up enough to work, and jets of window washers are frozen shut.Had some bad experiences on our highways, have you Bill? 
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