Porklet

Quick meaning: Porklet is a noun meaning A young pig, especially one that is to be raised to produce pork.

Meaning

A young pig, especially one that is to be raised to produce pork.

Example Sentences

Stage 1 is from the birth of porklets to pork being ready for slaughter.

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.

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.

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 up to fatten, and all but ready for the butcher.

Word Forms

• porklets

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include porket, porker, baconer, farrow, shoat, shoot.

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