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Definition of Shoats
1. shoat [n] - See also: shoat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoats
Literary usage of Shoats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diary of Matthew Patten of Bedford, N.H. by Matthew Patten (1903)
"... the Probate court 30th We butchered our two hogs and two shoats the 4 weighed
468 and I borrowed % a bushell of salt from Zechariah Chandler it weighed ..."
2. The Diary of Matthew Patten of Bedford, N.H.: From Seventeen Hundred Fifty by Matthew Patten (1903)
"... the Probate court 30th We butchered our two hogs and two shoats the 4 weighed
468 and I borrowed % a bushell of salt from Zechariah Chandler it weighed ..."
3. Life in Old Virginia: A Description of Virginia More Particularly the by James Joseph McDonald (1907)
"Of all the domestic animals with which man is blessed, or distressed, there are
none so difficult to catch and hold, as young, healthy shoats when loose in ..."
4. Life in Old Virginia: A Description of Virginia More Particularly the by James Joseph McDonald (1907)
"After repeated trials to corner and capture all six shoats at once, the crowd
finally centered their chase upon one animal at a time, and after numerous ..."
5. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1840 Two or three loafers—poor shoats—were brought up and fined for sleeping on
... 1843 [He showed the dog] how to worry infant pigs, then saucy shoats, ..."
6. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association by American Veterinary Medical Association. (1916)
"75- to 100-pound shoats 25 100- to 125-pound hogs 30 125- to 150-pound hogs 35
150- to 200-pound hogs 40 200- to 250-pound hogs 50 All hogs weighing over ..."
7. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1882)
"The whole herd had been running at large till recently, when the brood-sows and
several of the emailer shoats had been driven into the orchard and barnyard. ..."
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