Shoat

Definitions

1. A young, newly-weaned pig.
2. A sheep–goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).

Equivalents

Examples

“Why, was not one animal of every kind – a calf, and a lamb, and a filly, and a shote – upon the place⟳ marked with little Moses's own⟳ brand?”

“There would have⟳ been nature studies – a tiger pursuing a bird of paradise, a choking snake sheathing whole the flayed trunk of a shoat.”

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