hogget

Example Sentences

• "They sent a lorryload of hoggets to the auction mart, and they will keep the rest for their own flock."
• "They were kept in separate flocks; first there were the hoggets, then the oldest of the younger lambs and lastly the very young ones all kept apart from one another […]"
• "They make a delicious dinner special of hogget. It is made with rosemary and mint."
• "The butcher told him he didn’t have any lamb. Bummer, Max thought. Then the butcher told him, “We have hogget.” […] With some prodding, the butcher explained that hogget is meat from a sheep that is older than a lamb and younger than the animals that make mutton. It was delicious, this hogget."
• "The monastery's records showed not only how many swine were raised each year but also their disposition, categorized by boars, sows, hoggets, and porklings."
• "When the particulars of livestock endorsed on the Tavistock account rolls of the fourteenth century are compared with those given in the Exon Domesday,¹ the chief difference between them is found to lie in the elaborate subdivisions of the later documents. Bovine stock, for example, is now particularized under no fewer than eight categories: oxen, bulls, cows, heifers, three-year-old steers (bovetti), two-year-old bullocks (boviculi), yearlings, and calves. Sheep are classified as wethers, rams, ewes, hoggasters or two-year-olds, and lambs. For swine there are four categories: boars, sows, hoggets, and porklings or sucking-pigs (porcelli). The list is completed by the affri or draught-horses with their foals, and the capons, geese, and peacocks that were fattened for the lord's table. One animal, the goat, which had been kept in great numbers all over Devon in 1086, has no place in these later records. Behind its disappearance lay some notable but unrecorded change in the technique of dairy farming.² The tedium of the livestock inventories is frequently enlivened by glimpses of rural merry-making. Thus, in one year four calves, one bullock, two hoggets, three ewes, and seven wethers are slaughtered for the harvest festival at Hurdwick, besides the "feasting-wether" to which the farm labourers were entitled by ancient custom. An ox is killed for the servants when they begin to salt the winter meat at Martinmas. After the Easter and Michaelmas law-courts more stock is killed off to regale the tenants with a dinner. The Michaelmas goose is in evidence from the first, and often a lamb is stated to have been "given to St Antony". This gift remains as mysterious as the payment of a penny "to St German's bells" which occurs as a dairy expense in 1332 and 1337.¹"