hogget
/ˈhä-gət ˈhȯ-/ (ame, mw)
hogget — noun
1. a sheep between roughly six months and one year of age, after weaning but before
a sheep between roughly six months and one year of age, after weaning but before its first fleece is cut.
Eitan separated the lambs from the hoggets before driving the flock to the upper pasture.
countable: separated the lambs from the hoggets
The Welsh farmer kept twenty hoggets in the lower field through the wet autumn months.
plural use: kept twenty hoggets
Meat from a hogget tastes stronger than lamb but milder than mutton from older sheep.
Anjali bought a young hogget at the spring market and raised it for its wool.
The shepherd marked each hogget with blue paint before the first shearing of the year.
文法句型
a hogget
the hogget
用法筆記
Mostly used by British and Australasian sheep farmers, butchers, and wool buyers. Distinguishes the in-between life stage when the animal is no longer a 'lamb' but not yet old enough to be called a 'sheep' or 'mutton'.