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porklet

porklet noun: a piglet, especially one that is to be raised to produce pork.

Noun

porklet (plural porklets)

  1. A piglet, especially one that is to be raised to produce pork.
    • The herd of swine, at that time, more especially set them a longing, from a circumstance of which God has been graciously pleased that we should be particularly informed; and that that they were no sucking pigs, nor mere porklets, or tigerigtigs; but they were a herd of swine feeding, that is, put...1829, The Lion, volume IV, London: […] Richard Carlile, page 796
    • Nearly a month later, on “the Friday after the Feast of the Purification of Our Lady the Virgin” (which occurred on Feb. 2.), “the six little porklets or sucklings” were brought to trial.1906, E[dward] P[ayson] Evans, The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals, page 350

Examples of porklet in a sentence

  • The writer took twenty porklets, aged from two to three months, belonging to five different litters, and divided them into four groups, so arranged that all the litters were represented in each group.1927, The Scottish Journal of Agriculture, page 466:
  • All other countries which included swine in their census returns, with the exception of England and Wales and Scotland, have made a distinction between porklets and full grown animals.1937, The First World Agricultural Census (1930): A Methodological Study of the Questions Contained in the Forms Adopted for the Purposes...
  • Stage 1 is from the birth of porklets to pork being ready for slaughter.2020, Honghua Chen, Fen Xu, “Barriers and Facilitators of Front Identification in China’s Pork Traceability Syste,”, in Antonio J....

Forms of porklet

pluralporklets

Origin of porklet

From pork + -let.

Questions about porklet

What does porklet mean?
Porklet means a piglet, especially one that is to be raised to produce pork.
How do you use porklet in a sentence?
The writer took twenty porklets, aged from two to three months, belonging to five different litters, and divided them into four groups, so arranged that all the litters were represented in each group.
What part of speech is porklet?
Porklet is a noun.
What is the plural of porklet?
The plural of porklet is porklets.

Words near porklet in the dictionary

  1. Porkistanis
  2. Porkkala
  3. porkknocker
  4. porkknockers
  5. porkless
  6. porklet
  7. porklets
  8. porklike
  9. porklings
  10. porkman
  11. porkmeister

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