Definition of "shoat" [shoat]

• A young pig just after weaning. (noun)

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• "It appears, by the way, that there is a saying in the Eastern Thorps: I know a shoat from a sheepdog."
• "The shoat was a large pig now, but travel had kept him thin."
• "(Oxford English Dictionary) [28.2] A shoat is a weaned pig under a year old."