shoat
Example Sentences
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Travis liked the shoats too, but fortunately, that year none of our present piglets had evidenced a singular enough personality to earn a name.
From Literature
If you could buy shoats on credit, fatten them on food that cost next to nothing, sell them, pay off your loan, and take your profit, you would really have done something.
From Literature
The least little old biting shoat could make her take cover.
From Literature
They can live with hogs, have half a dozen shoats at the dinner-table, a litter of pigs in the family bed, but they can't abide Irish.
From Project Gutenberg
Droves of black hogs and shoats are ploughing the sward in their search for sweet roots, or lying half-buried in the wet sand.
From Project Gutenberg
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